novelraw Chapter 125
Chapter 125
Josie's college life continues to unfold, and the development of TT and Timi is also on track.
As a rising star of the Internet, the number of TT users has grown rapidly, directly threatening the market share of ICQ, the creator of instant messaging software, but unfortunately, TT's software design is obviously more mature and user-friendly than ICQ, so that ICQ has just announced it has become It didn't take long for the instant messaging software with the largest number of users in the world, and the industry believed that it was only a matter of time before it was overtaken by TT.
Therefore, ICQ first made a big fuss in media reports, accusing TT of plagiarizing ICQ's core ideas, and then broke the news that TT violated user privacy, and couldn't wait to start discrediting its competitors.
But the question is, no matter how it is discredited, TT’s sense of use is far superior to that of ICQ, especially the damn personal business card function—why do so many people spend money on their avatars?
As small as a ring, as large as the background of a business card, TT users are like gold diggers shopping with sugar daddies, spending a lot of money to create their own virtual images without hesitation.
It can be said that seeing that TT has found another way to achieve profitability—and it is huge profits—peers including ICQ all want to "learn" this function, and some people have already put it into action.
But wait until they model and debug before the internal test, TT may have to update the version again, after all, the customer service background of Tianyan Network has collected a lot of user suggestions, and the sports car special effects and pet interaction functions will be launched soon...
Timi encountered a little problem here. During the closed internal test of the real-time broadcast function of the website center, some program failures of page crashes were found, and it was necessary to continue debugging and delay the release.
However, these are not the events that Josie is most concerned about recently, because a financial turmoil sweeping across Southeast Asia is spreading across the ocean.
First, the plunge of the Thai baht forced the Thai government to abandon the fixed exchange rate system, and then the Philippine peso, Indonesian rupiah, and Malaysian ringgit were shorted by international speculators one after another.
Then, the international short-selling institutions headed by George Soros turned to the current exchange rate system of Hong Kong City and attacked the financial market of Hong Kong City like lightning.
The entire Wall Street is in an unprecedented carnival.
"Miss Horton, are we really not going to continue?" The stockbroker on the other end of the phone could not hide his excitement, and did not agree with this decision.
In just a few months, the 1000 million that Josie had prepared for investing in "Titanic" turned into 500 million, but the process was really frightening.
——After all, this money is all her current liquidity.
Qiao Qian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and replied, "I'm not going to play anymore, just accept it when it's good."
This money is really hot to hold, but in order to acquire TT's frequent acquisition of America Online, she is about to mobilize her contacts to thoroughly investigate the tax issues of Tianyan Network. She must get a large sum of money as soon as possible to support the operation of the company and do a good job in promotion. Competition preparation.
In this regard, Frank Horton's suggestion is to find a strong backer—such as Tianmu Capital—to sell part of TT and even Tianyan Network.
However, this proposal was temporarily shelved by Josie. She only said that she was too busy recently, at least she would not have time and energy to consider this issue until all the schedules about "Titanic" were over.
It is precisely because of the release of this news that the pressure on Tianyan Network has been relieved a lot, because many people in Silicon Valley have expressed great interest in Tianyan Network, and there are world-class companies like Microsoft among them.
Basically, these companies all hope to acquire wholly-owned shares, and only two of them proposed to take control.
Time has entered October, and the premiere of "Titanic" has also entered the final countdown.
Josie returned to Los Angeles to attend the premiere of "The Devil's Advocate" and met James Cameron who was still busy in the editing room. They took too many beautiful pictures, so every time they edited, James Cameron It was difficult for Long to make a choice, and his heart ached.
So even if tomorrow is Fox's internal test screening, the current film length of "Titanic" is still as long as five hours.
"I can only cut a few seconds every day." James Cameron nestled in front of the workbench in the editing room. , and then had to cut it short, it was tough—and I feel like the film was at least a $[-] million loss."
It can be said that the whole of Hollywood is waiting to see the "Titanic" joke, and those sharp media people are even more merciless, doing their best to ridicule.
Even James Cameron, who has always been self-confident and maverick, couldn’t resist writing a letter to the Los Angeles Times, not only hitting back at the harsh comments, denying those untrue reports, but also sincerely appealing to people to understand this The tough and the beautiful of the movie.
But—that letter had no effect.
Because everyone is crazy, any little trouble about "Titanic" will be published in the newspapers, and the whole Hollywood seems to be waiting for the big ship to officially sail and then sink directly to the bottom of the sea.
"You know, Jim——" Josie sat next to James Cameron, looking away from the blade attached to his monitor, "My feeling is that your feeling is completely misunderstood."
Her voice is very relaxed and firm.
James Cameron couldn't help turning his head, staring into the eyes of the young girl beside him, trying to see any shaken or flustered emotions from the rich blue.
But Josie just shrugged her shoulders not very gracefully, "You are like a peerless beauty who doubts her own beauty, this is really incredible, don't you believe what you see in the mirror when you wake up every day, and care about The humiliation of you by those 'spontaneous tourists'?"
At this point, she paused a little, as if to organize her words, or to be confused.
"Listen to me, Jim, the world of geniuses is not easily imagined by ordinary people, and the box office curve of ordinary commercial films cannot be used to predict the cross-age genius works. We haven't won yet, so how can we prepare to admit defeat now!"
Josie didn't give James Cameron time to think, but looked at the monitor on the workbench, and patted the great director on the shoulder with a little effort.
"Come on, let's get on with the pleasant work!" She began to point at the film material in a serious manner, "Oh, I think this scene can be deleted completely, and the scene where Rose goes back to the room to vent is not affected The next story line..."
"Don't try to touch my material!" James Cameron said with his eyes wide open as if he had suddenly come to his senses.
Josie smiled twice, spreading her hands with an innocent expression.
"Also, are you teaching me how to cut your shots?" James Cameron turned to the workbench, touched the mouse with his hand, babbled foul language, and fell into a wonderful world, "You Think I'm a genius? Well, my fucking self thinks so, you're just as likable as your rich daddy, really, I mean it, you and the Foxes are yelling about jumping off buildings The idiots are different, I hope that group of idiots will..."
The next day was an internal preview of Titanic.
Josie arrived at Fox's headquarters in Century City in West Hollywood in Frank's car. Fox's high-level executives in charge of the project appeared collectively, including Peter Chening, the chairman who strongly supported James Cameron, also came specially.
As the leading actor in a movie and a young actor starring in a commercial blockbuster for the first time, Leonardo is under a lot of pressure.
He was wearing a more formal casual suit today, and even his hair was done before he came here. He couldn't help but have a handsome face, and even his usual smile seemed very reserved.
Josie sat next to Leonardo, watched him take a long, deep breath, and couldn't help teasing, "Do I need a brown paper bag to help you decompress?"
Leonardo couldn't help but give Josie a sideways glance, "I really appreciate your damn sense of humor!" He laughed himself as he said that, and exhaled exaggeratedly, "Tell me, J, How can you be so calm—you're not even agitated."
Since the last time I heard someone call Josie's nickname, Leonardo made her own one, and he felt that it was very easy to say.
Josie was noncommittal about this, because she thought that a name was just a title, whether it was "Joe", "Little Joe", "Jojo" or "J", it didn't make much difference to her, as long as the person who called it liked it. .
"It's all shot." Josie's eyes were indifferent, "And I always believe that the worst result of all our efforts for this movie is that even if it is not [-]% successful, it will never fail."
Her sitting posture is relaxed but elegant, her back is a smooth straight line, her hands are folded in front of her knees, and she is almost the same as Frank Horton on the other side. She is calm and self-sustaining, giving people extremely powerful convincing power.
Looking at Josie's appearance, Leonardo was unknowingly infected, and silently relaxed a little.
The overhead light in the room was turned off, and it fell into the darkness suitable for watching movies. He turned his head and glanced at the man on the other side of Josie, moved closer to her, and said in a volume that only two people could hear clearly: "Okay, But to be honest, I'm still a little nervous, can you lend me your right hand?"
Josie lowered her gaze.
From her own perspective, the blond young man seemed to be acting coquettishly with his chin resting on her arm, a face full of youthful vigor, fresh and beautiful.
However, she just hooked the corners of her lips and said, "Do you think this is watching a thriller, Leo? Or, did you forget that there is someone on the other side of you."
"Ah, now that you've said it, it seems like you're not so nervous anymore." Leonardo touched his nose nonchalantly, he wasn't interested in holding Jon Landau's hand to watch a movie.
The movie started showing.
Fox's internal projection room was very quiet. First, a salvage scene from a shipwreck evoked the memories of the elderly Rose, and then went back decades to see the first appearance of the steel giant moored on the pier and the heroine Rose.
Frank raised his hand and glanced at the black Vacheron Constantin on his wrist, the pointer on it turned almost half a circle.
"How many minutes is this movie in total?" He asked Josie next to him in a low voice.
"More than three and a half hours." Josie was not sure.
When she first arrived at the scene, she chatted with James Cameron for a while, and found that his eyes were full of red blood after staying up all night, but his eyes were bright and energetic. She said that today she would use the film to persuade Fox to keep the premiere as usual Put it in the country.
"It's too long." Frank frowned. "The audience entered the movie theater to see the big ship and the hero and heroine, not to listen to unrelated people and old ladies reminiscing about the past."
According to his expectations, five to 10 minutes of this boring scene would be enough.
The point is to get close-up shots of the expensive diorama in all directions. The magnificent steel behemoth is entrenched on the sea, and any man will feel excited.
As for the love story of the male and female protagonists... In all fairness, Frank thinks that James Cameron's plot is not as romantic and thrilling as he used to pursue Josie's mother Edna.
In fact, back then he was just a poor boy from the most chaotic Hell’s Kitchen in New York. He didn’t even study hard in middle school, but he couldn’t bear to help the young lady who ran away for a while. People get married and so on.
——Oh, I'm afraid this could be a trilogy, and it should be called "Sleepless in Manhattan".