Hollywood Hunter

In a small courtyard of Dushu Lakeside Manor, when she opened her eyes in the morning, Mo Wuling's first thought was that Chen Qing must have arranged her and Ren Jingxi together on purpose.

Although...

Last night, I don't know who took the initiative, and it was ridiculous again.

It won't really be a lily, will it?

Thinking of this, Mo Wuling turned around and saw that Ren Jingxi had already gotten up, sitting in front of the computer at the desk by the window, tapping on something.

After grabbing a moon-white silk nightdress and putting it on, Mo Wuling got off the bed with bare feet, came behind Ren Jingxi, and looked at the computer screen. Her best friend was browsing some drawings, which was obviously the "Lotus Lantern".

Are you such a workaholic?

So he stepped forward, leaned behind Ren Jingxi, put his head on her shoulder, put his face against his face, half-jokingly: "Wake up so early to work, is this turning depression into strength?"

Ren Jingxi shook his body lightly, did not shake the girl behind him away, stopped moving, continued to browse the sketches, and occasionally tapped some annotations, feeling that Mo Wuling was deliberately twisting and making trouble, and said with a smile: "Don't grind Oh, and you don't have chest hair."

Mo Wuling recalled what Ren Jingxi said before that someone's chest hair was a little prickly, and what happened last night, his face turned red, and he retorted: "You have it?"

Ren Jingxi gave her a blank look, stopped talking, and turned to a set of lens design drawings for the final battle of "Lotus Lantern", carefully reviewing them one by one.

The new version of "Lotus Lantern" follows the script structure of a standard commercial film with a clear rhythm.

At the end, the climax of Chen Xiang splitting the mountain to save his mother is planned to be a big melee, Monkey King vs. Erlang God, Chen Xiang's friends vs. Huashan guards, Chen Xiang has to face the mountain god sent by Erlang God, and so on.

In the process of discussing this plot at the beginning, everyone felt that as long as it can be done well, this plot will definitely be very brilliant, and even become the finishing touch of this animated film, so it is also the top priority of the film planning.

Seeing that Ren Jingxi was ignoring him, Mo Wuling started typing on the keyboard again, but remembered an interesting incident he saw in a magazine by chance, and said, "Hey, did you know that Hemingway once almost had a duel because of his chest hair."

Ren Jingxi didn't really care too much, but in order to avoid trouble from his girlfriends, he responded cooperatively: "Huh?"

Mo Wuling was enthusiastic: "Probably, Western men think that chest hair is a symbol of masculinity. As we all know, Hemingway thought he was a tough guy, but he cared about this very much. However, a reporter wrote an article saying that his chest hair was fake. Hemingway was so angry that he stuck to it by himself, so he went straight to that guy and demanded an apology or a duel, and even asked the reporter to pluck his chest hair to prove it was true."

Ren Jingxi unhurriedly typed his own mark on a page of artwork, and after listening to Mo Wuling finish speaking, he said with a smile: "Hemingway is so boring, and you are even more boring than him for paying attention to this kind of thing. "

"Hey, I just saw it by accident," Mo Wuling was dissatisfied: "And, it's obvious that you first mentioned him...his."

"Yeah, it's all my fault," Ren Jingxi took the initiative to admit his mistake, feeling that his back was too heavy, and pushed his best friend: "Go and wash up, let's go to have breakfast together later, he will leave in the morning."

Mo Wuling snorted twice, did not leave immediately, and asked again: "Hey, who do you think he...was with last night?"

"You ask him directly later."

"When I dare not."

Ren Jingxi tapped the keyboard again, and said, "Ten thousand yuan, I bet you don't dare."

Mo Wuling: "..."

So bullying.

After washing up, the two left the small courtyard and were led down by the maid to a two-story building that was more exquisite than the mansion in Mao'er Hutong across the manor's artificial lake. Stepping into the restaurant on the second floor, they immediately understood a certain answer.

Ren Jingxi was surprised when she saw Yang Damei, who was famous for peacock dance, quietly sitting next to a certain man, and Mo Wuling was a little confused in surprise. You know, she and Yang Dali are fellow villagers from Dali, Yunnan. . Not only that, Yang Damei was also Mo Wuling's childhood idol, so he learned folk dance for a while when he was young.

Um……

It seems that there is a very important issue, childhood idols, childhood... idols!

Hateful man.

Everyone beckoned to sit down at the dining table, Mo Wuling looked over quietly, probably wanting to see that some big bully robbed women and weak women and forced them to submit. However, with just a few simple glances, Mo Wuling could also feel It turned out that Yang Damei, who was sitting next to him with Chen Qing on the left and right, not only showed no expression of resistance, but had a very obvious affection for someone.

Flower heart big radish.

He recited another sentence viciously in his heart, and it wasn't until the waitress put the breakfast in front of him that Mo Wuling finally came back to his senses and listened to their chat.

In fact, if it weren't for the current occasion, Mo Wuling would definitely have a friendship with Yang Damei, a fellow villager, but now...he is not in the mood.

Yang Damei is obviously not a person who is good at words, he seldom talks, and he seems to have become a lot less talkative in a tacit understanding, just chatting occasionally in a gentle tone, the food in front of him, the Chinese dance, and the music. Movies and the like, Mo Wuling also quickly understood why the Peacock Princess appeared here. It turned out that the other party came to Suzhou to audition for the role of Mei Chaofeng in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

Mei Chaofeng?

Mo Wuling doesn't know much about "Shooting the Condors". He has only watched a few episodes of the Hong Kong version of the TV series, and he can't tell which version. He only remembers that Mei Chaofeng is not a very good character. It seems that he is still a big villain. coming.

Yang Damei is the goddess in the hearts of the people all over the country, how can she be with her?

Want to play this role?

Can't figure it out.

The answer seemed to come out on its own initiative. While eating breakfast, a waitress brought a CD, saying it was a song recorded overnight, a song about Mei Chaofeng.

Mo Wuling cheered up immediately.

Because, of course, he wrote it again. Just a little gloomy again. As soon as I met him, I wrote a song for him... Big, radish, radish!

Another waitress installed the stereo, tangled and expecting, and the singing sounded soon.

*...

*The left hand holds the earth, the right hand holds the sky.

*The palm lines cracked lightning from ten directions.

*Take the time in a hurry and convert it into a year.

* Three thousand lives, as seen.

*Holding flowers in her left hand and dancing a sword in her right hand.

*10,000 years of snow fell between the eyebrows.

*...

The first impression is that it sounds good, very good, the soprano voice blended with drama, the strong penetrating power, quickly drags people into a strong and sad artistic conception.

Mo Wuling couldn't help piecing together the scattered impressions about Mei Chaofeng.

A disciple of Dongxie, who fell in love with his senior brother was not tolerated by his master, escaped from Peach Blossom Island, and called the Black Wind Shuangsha. However, his lover was accidentally stabbed to death by the young Guo Jing, and he was also blinded. In order to get revenge, he practiced hard for ten years immersed in the darkness like a ghost.

This is a very sad woman.

"Left hand" and "right hand" appear repeatedly in the lyrics. From Mo Wuling's point of view, it is also easy to understand. Mei Chaofeng's unique skill is the nine-yin white bone claw. Therefore, a pair of hands is not only her weapon, but also a tool to perceive the world. , like another pair of eyes.

When a song was coming to an end, Mo Wuling glanced at Yang Damei, who was obviously a very emotional woman, and she had probably taken herself into the role of Mei Chaofeng, her eyes were full of gleam.

So Mo Wuling immediately understood why last night, for the first time, the national goddess seemed very close to the man next to her.

A big liar who seduces women's hearts!

Liar!

Slandering someone again, Mo Wuling silently picked up the spoon and took a mouthful of red bean porridge into his mouth, chewing slowly and vigorously a few times, as if he was chewing someone, mainly because the song played Once, don't continue.

Can't hear enough.

After the singing fell, Ren Jingxi's generous voice came from his ear: "Simon, what's the name of this song?"

Then came a man's voice: ""Left Pointing to the Moon"."

"Left Pointing to the Moon", certainly not original by Simon, was once the theme song of a fantasy drama.

Simon saw Yang Damei last night, and then thought of Mei Chaofeng who was about to be played by the other party. For some reason, he thought of this song, wrote it down casually, and even auditioned it on the spot. Unfortunately, this song is very difficult. The few girls couldn't hold up, so Chen Qing sent them to find a more professional female singer to record overnight, and sent them over immediately.

When Mo Wuling heard this name, he felt stingy again: Why didn't he point to the moon with his right hand?

All right.

In fact, I also noticed that there is a sentence in the lyrics "Left finger pointing to the moon", and I probably remember that "pointing to the moon" is a Buddhist term, similar to "I smell it like this" from someone's "Forgiveness", but what does it mean? too clear.

Anyway, the song was written for another woman at the scene, so it was difficult for Mo Wuling to be in a good mood.

Yesterday, when he realized that his mentality was not right, Ren Jingxi adjusted it in time, and last night, um, so he was able to calm down. Unexpectedly, the girlfriend next to her was stimulated by a fellow countryman and fell into a similar mood. Seeing Mo Wuling's abnormality by chance, Ren Jingxi felt a little funny, and felt a little more annoyed with a certain man again.

Damn guy!

However, it was just in my heart.

A certain man is the kind that the two of them can't grasp even if they are reasonable, but he can't let himself be distressed, so he quickly adjusted again, and then candidly commented on the song just now, and offered to be used as the song in preparation One of the theme songs of "Shooting the Condors", which is the same as "Forgiveness" in "Dragon Ba Bu".

"Forgiveness" is written about A Zhu, and "Left Pointing to the Moon" is written about Mei Chaofeng, but it is also somewhat similar.

Of course, Ren Jingxi was still a little envious of that beautiful lady Yang. Some unreliable little thoughts also flashed through, otherwise, whenever, I would become an actor myself. Maybe I can have a song of my own.

Simon liked the two theme songs of the CCTV version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Heaven and Earth Are in My Heart" and "True Love, True Beauty", and they will play them together this time. However, listening to what Ren Jingxi said, I think it would be really good to add another song "Left Fingering the Moon".

As for how to use the three songs, it is up to the "Shooting the Condor" team to handle it themselves.

Overall a very pleasant breakfast.

After the end, he bid farewell to a group of reluctant women, Simon didn't stay any longer, and set off for South Korea.

In Asia, it is now April 16.

Sunday.

In the study room in the front cabin of the Boeing 767, after the plane took off, Simon also got the preliminary feedback documents from Tinkber's spring conference that opened at 2 o'clock local time on the west coast of the United States yesterday.

In the spring of 2000, in addition to regular upgrades of main electronic products such as the i, the biggest highlight of Tinkber's press conference in the spring of 2000 was the long-awaited Tinkball game console ibox-10 by countless game fans.

Compared with Sony ps2 released in March, ibox-10 has stronger processor performance and more efficient graphics

Card configuration, larger hard disk capacity... In short, all parameters are clearly ahead of ps2 by a large margin. Not only that, but one point that ibox-10 surpasses existing stand-alone game consoles is that it has networking functions.

However, the key pricing, the base capacity version, ibox-10 is still $299 which is comparable to ps2.

According to the assessment of the ibox project team, even with a good estimate of 5 million units shipped a year, Tinkber is expected to lose $50 for every ibox-10 sold. In order to achieve break-even by further diluting costs with shipments, the annual shipments of ibox need to reach more than 10 million.

Therefore, inside Tinkber, everyone's initial expected pricing is actually $399, or even higher. In the end, Simon intervened and lowered the price to $299. Not only did he not intend to make money, but he sold it at a loss.

Simon's goal is to sell tens of millions a year.

Otherwise it is a failure.

This is not an unattainable goal, not to mention that Tinkber's other flagship products have annual sales exceeding 100 million. Compared with peers, Sony's first-generation PS has annual sales of tens of millions. If there is no ibox sniper, the brand new ps2 has been a big seller in history.

What's more, Simon is very clear that the big head of the game console has never been the hardware, but the software.

Just like Microsoft in the past, with successive generations of Xbox, Microsoft has never made money and has always been losing money in terms of hardware. However, counting the game software business, Microsoft's revenue has suddenly become very rich, and even the proportion of the game business in Microsoft's total revenue is getting higher and higher, so that in the ranking of global game manufacturers, the public impression should have been Microsoft, the operating system company, has always been in a very high position unexpectedly by many people.

Let’s talk about the release of ibox-10. To be conservative, Tinkber will no longer directly push it to multiple markets around the world like other products, but will release it in North America first.

This is not to save costs, but, after all, the first generation does not have the experience of Nintendo and Sony. Even though a lot of internal testing has been carried out in advance, it is a whole new set of software and hardware systems after all, and various problems are expected to occur. It will be inevitable, so, yes, of course, first use American players as guinea pigs, and then promote it to the world after perfection.

According to another interesting theory, it can also be said that Tinkber is saving the best things for the Americans themselves.

In addition to the ibox-10 itself, in terms of supporting equipment, at this press conference, Tinkber, Igret, Daenerys and other peripheral game manufacturers also released "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Conjuring: Blood Moon". , "Jurassic Park", "Dune 3D", "Spiderman" and other 15 new games involving action, shooting, horror and other types.

Just looking at a few names such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Spider-Man", you can imagine the degree of market expectations. Moreover, for a long time in the future, this part of the game will be exclusive to the ibox platform.

In addition, the ibox game store, which was opened simultaneously, also launched ibox versions of more than 200 classic games from previous years. In this way, among the more than 200 games, there are nearly half of the games, which can be played unlimitedly only by applying for a monthly subscription VIP membership, and there is no need to purchase them separately.

This innovation in the game sales model is also a breakthrough that breaks the convention.

Furthermore, one or two people playing games will inevitably feel lonely and boring.

In order to strengthen the social attributes of the ibox platform, Tinkber has also specially established an official website and an official forum. In addition to various discussions and interactions, users can upload their game scores to various lists on the website as long as they want. It can not only provoke the user's competitiveness, but also satisfy the user's desire to show off.

In short, compared to traditional game consoles, ibox does not live up to its "i" letter prefix, which is a complete subversion for traditional stand-alone game consoles.