"Looks like you already have a clear goal. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Sanamre Shidong nodded with satisfaction, in the management of Paramount, Lin Mu has a lot of autonomy, of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that he holds a lot of equity in Viacom. "As for the TV broadcasting industry, one film company is not enough to influence the entertainment industry in Hong Kong, and I think it is best to acquire a TV broadcasting company with greater influence and wider coverage in Asia at the same time!"

"The acquisition of a TV broadcaster is not a small amount of money, and before the acquisition of CBS, such a two-line acquisition would put a lot of pressure on Viacom's cash flow." Lei Shidong's proposal has been considered before, but the consequences of doing so are likely to cause tension in the company's capital chain.

"Don't worry, I don't mind a plate of appetizers before the big meal!" Sanam said with a smile.

Christmas Eve. "Saving Private Ryan" was released in North America. This is another independently produced film launched by DreamWorks after that. Sam Fuller, an American director who has directed classic war films, once said: "A real war movie is one that makes the audience feel that someone is shooting at you!" A few years after he said this, Spielberg interpreted the words of his predecessors in his characteristic artistic language.

The film's ingenious small-scale test screening before the new film launch event was a special reflection, and the screening room was not only occupied by the film's main creators, but also by journalists from more than four media outlets. The movie theater was quiet, and Lin Mu and Spielberg sat in the front row.

The prologue of the movie "Saving Private Ryan" is peaceful and quiet. An old man with flowery hair led a family of three generations to sweep the grave. A neat white frame is set against the gentle greenery. The old man slowly passed, reminiscing about the past. The camera panned. Then, the scene of the movie cuts to the most dangerous Omaha Beach battlefield of World War II in the middle of the century. The roaring waters of Omaha Beach. Blue drum waves. Rolling the blood-stained shores. This is the US soldier who struggled to land and seize the beach in June of this year.

With the passage of time, many Americans' memories of this landing war have become blurred, and the film's footage brings everyone back to that battlefield filled with gunpowder. For the sake of the anti-fascist war, the war was finally won. The Allies attacked on all fronts, and the Normandy landings opened the prelude to a counteroffensive. In the picture, the officer starring Tom Hanks is pulled by a cannonball, and the movie has just begun to foreshadow the rescue. A soldier who was desperately attacking was blown up and rolled in the air, he covered his bloody intestines and belly, and shouted in the sky: "Mom! Mom! Mom," Captain Miller crawled forward dragging a wounded and lying comrade in a hail of bullets, and when the bombs roared, he looked back and saw that only half of the body of the man was dragging behind. He then threw the horrible corpse away and ran forward in disgust.

In the film, the bloody assault and landing on Omaha Beach turned the sea red, and the bloody battle was fought on the screen for 24 minutes. The guns and artillery are in the heart, and the smoke of gunpowder is in the air. The sea is dyed red. Corpses across the coast. The camera slowly spreads out, shaking the tragic scars of the battlefield, until it pushes to a soldier lying on the beach. The sacrificial warrior's backpack bears his name: Risance I. Ryan.

Although he had been fully psychologically prepared for the reality and cruelty of the landing operation at the beginning of the film. But sitting in the screening room, Lin Mu still couldn't restrain the surging in his heart. Spielberg presented the entire process of beach grabbing in front of the audience accurately and completely, making people feel for the first time how close the war is to themselves.

Just when Lin Mu was stunned, background music began to play, and the female logistics soldiers in the picture were counting the list of wounded and dead. The camera pans horizontally, and the soft light seems to be washing and washing away the bloody battle that has just happened. Vast fields, tranquil countryside, a comfortable home. The home is simple and dull, and the shine floats outdoors. A red flag hung in front of a mother's house with four military stars hanging on it.

It is indicated that there are already four warriors in the mother's house, all of whom are fighting on the battlefield.

The camera slowly pans to the mother's back. Her gaze was glazed and she looked out the window slightly, thinking of her four sons who were fighting bloodily on the battlefield. A black military sedan approached from a dirt road in the countryside. Approaching the frail mother, who had no one to rely on, the U.S. government sent her three Stars and Stripes. The mother pushed open the door and walked out, greeting the two men in the car: a uniformed officer and a black-robed priest.

The mother touched the scene and wanted to help something, but she didn't hold it, so she stumbled and knelt down on the spot. The mother staggered and knelt on the back of the mother, and the mother's love was silent. The mother received three letters of death in battle: Lai Sang Ryan died in Omaha Beach, Lai Danny Ryan died in battle, and New Guinea and Ridridry died in Utah. Now the old mother on the screen has only one young son left: James Ryan. This is her only son, and a mother's heart.

The screening room was so quiet that Lin Mu could even hear someone sobbing softly, and he himself. At this time, the corners of the eyes are already slightly moist. As the film continues, several hard-working war statistics officers are handing over a list of the dead to the highest authorities on the battlefield. A 3-star general with a solemn countenance, restrained his feelings, and read a letter of consolation from President Lincoln to a mother who had lost a child in the war during the American Civil War to his subordinates.

Next, the three-star general in the film solemnly ordered: "That young man, he must still be alive." Send for him. We're going to get him back. Send him back to his mother, and execute it. So he came to the peace, and saving the son and returning the mother on the battlefield has become a major main line of this war film "Saving Private Ryan".

The main line of this story comes from the famous Sullivan Act in the history of World War II. This bill is about five siblings named the Sullivan family who went to the anti-fascist battlefield at the same time. During the Pacific War, they served in the same military service on the Juno, and died on the battlefield in one fell swoop. In November of the same year, the U.S. Congress passed a clear constitution stipulating that all siblings of the same family were not allowed to go to the front. With this clause, Private Ryan must be saved. So the death squad of eight people took on the important task of saving Private Ryan.

In addition to the tragedy of the landing operation, this film also has a good grasp of the shooting of death. It is inevitable that people will not die in war, and it is even more common for people to die in a war as tragic as the Normandy landings, but people must die meaningfully. To be meaningful, it must first be authentic.

The death shots in "Saving Private Ryan" are quite realistic. The soldier whined without struggling after being shot. Here, there is no "full live broadcast" of the death process in slow motion. There is no more unrealistic dying rebellion, death. It came so fast, so fast that it was almost breathless. The number of deaths gradually increased, one, two, three, countless, and finally created a tragic scene on the screen. People not only unconsciously feel the fragility and weakness of life, but even more so in war.

Although the death in the film is short, it is particularly powerful under the foreshadowing: the soldiers under the water are entangled in heavy objects and can only be suffocated to death; Jewish soldiers who are starved of strength and watch as cold, sharp knives pierce their hearts, these "passages of death" are carried from life to death. It conveys the horror of war, the misery and the decline of humanity, and the fleeting nature of human life.

The heavy theme of the film directly affected the new film press conference after the test screening, and before seeing the film, the reporters present thought that today's press conference should be a lively entertainment news. The third collaboration between Hollywood's talented screenwriter and talented director on the screen invited big-name stars such as Tom Hanks, and the main creator is the original cast of the Oscar classic movie "Schindler's List".

But those lively scenes did not appear. The film "Saving Private Ryan" was like a heavy stone, weighing heavily on everyone's hearts, so when the host of the scene announced the start of free questions, there was no scene of reporters rushing to ask questions. Even in the opening minutes, the scene fell into a kind of oppressive silence. The host had never encountered such a situation before. You must know that the people sitting on the stage are all famous figures in Hollywood, and any of them is the headline of some entertainment tabloids on weekdays.

The reporters were brewing their emotions and questions, and after a short cold moment, a reporter finally stood up and asked: "This film is the most shocking war movie I have ever seen, originally I prepared a lot of questions, but now I just want to ask Sheng this question, you are the shaper of this story, I want to know in your heart." Is it worth saving one person with the lives of eight people on the battlefield?

"Putting aside the heroic sacrifice and comrade-in-arms feelings in the movie, I have always pondered a question, who do we belong to? Does it belong to this family, or to a country? For a family, Ryan is everything, and for a nation, Ryan is just an insignificant soldier fighting on the front lines. Eight to save one, if we only explain this kind of humane behavior in war from a moral point of view, I am afraid that it will not be very intuitive at all. I think the film itself also raises the question of whether the noble behavior of human beings can or cannot be judged simply by the so-called value scale in commodity trading. Lin Mu glanced at Spielberg, who was sitting next to him, and it was obvious that he was also thinking about it.

"Ryan is a good soldier, and he didn't let his mother kneel for nothing. I believe that true humanity cannot correspond to real values. Human nature and the value of profit are two different things. In fact, isn't Private Ryan afraid of death? Actually, I'm afraid. But his reason for staying and dying was too pure. ”

Matt Damon, the actor of Private Ryan in the film, answered this question on behalf of the director, and his expression when answering this question reminded people of Private Ryan's insistence in the film: "I'm not leaving, I want to be worthy of my brother and mother." My brothers are not dead.

I'm going to fight alongside them. When we were victorious, we all returned to our mother's arms together. When that happens, we'll go home together! ”

Sitting silently on the sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the afterglow of the sunset disappear in the sparkling waves of Victoria Harbour. For some reason, Run Run Shaw always likes to sit here alone these days and watch the sunset in the sky, and from this sunset, he seems to see his own shadow. This feeling was something he had never felt even in the most difficult time more than a decade ago. Although he always showed a healthy posture in front of the outside media, he increasingly felt powerless, a deep sense of powerlessness for the future.

It wasn't until the lights were on outside the window that Run Run Shaw stood up tremblingly, and the middle-aged man who had been guarding behind him hurriedly stepped forward to support him. "Hao, how is that investigation?" Shaw muttered.

"It should be the work of a powerful overseas investment company, and this time they used at least ten offshore companies to secretly acquire the magazine and Shaw Brothers, so it is still unclear who is behind the scenes.

At the mention of this, the middle-aged man with an indifferent expression couldn't help frowning.

"Surely it's not the Hong Kong company?" Shaw didn't have a clue about the matter. But he is more inclined to be manipulated by a company in Xiangjiang.

"It shouldn't be, several companies with this strength in Hong Kong have suffered heavy losses in the Southeast Asian financial crisis, and this time in just one week, the bulk shares on the market have basically been bought out, almost all the fund companies that hold these two stocks have received the acquisition intention from different companies, except for a few fund companies with a good relationship with us are still waiting, other companies have all sold their stocks. In other words, during the week, they used at least more than $2 back. At present, there is no company in Hong Kong that can withdraw such a huge amount of money in a week, so it can only be an overseas capital group. Ah Hao said with certainty.

"Who could it be?" Run Run Shaw shook his head blankly, but didn't say anything more, obviously Hao's words just now made him need some time to digest.

The sixth aunt had already gone to attend, and Zhao urgently convened a high-level board meeting, and Ahao, who believed that there would be results soon, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "And I think their purpose this time is not just to get a controlling stake, they should be wholly owned."