Chapter Five Hundred and Eighty Fifth Father
Chapter 585
The so-called butterfly effect is actually an example of chaos theory, and another classic real example is the story of a horseshoe nail destroying a country. The more popular explanation of chaos theory is that everything is composed of countless "fragments", and the change of any one of these "fragments" may have a great impact on the whole. From the beginning of an idea to the final completion of a movie, it needs to go through countless fickle 'fragments'. Maybe it's just a screenwriter who occasionally comes up with a brand new idea, or maybe it's just that the editor accidentally cut a certain shot wrong. Therefore, in this time and space, it is almost impossible to make a movie exactly the same as the original time and space when history has deviates.
Although the core of "Braveheart" is Mel Gibson, the film's excellent shots and soundtrack have a lot to do with the photographer and the soundtrack. If the new cinematography and soundtrack deviate too much from the original, the entire movie could look completely different from the original.
Eric didn't talk too much about script details with the Weinstein brothers and Mel Gibson, but instead focused on those details that influenced the style of the entire movie.
There are many Hollywood stars with perverse personalities, but none of them are stupid enough to play their temper in front of a big Hollywood boss, even if the big Hollywood boss is ten years younger than him, plus Ed Limato and the Weinstein brothers. The heat, the meal was quite enjoyable. Although Mel Gibson is already a super-star in Hollywood, it is still impossible to compete with the people at the top of the pyramid. Eric heard that a few years ago, when Mel Gibson was working with Universal on "The Birds of Fright", he was in the film During the release process, the overseas box office revenue was concealed. During the process of directing his first film "The Faceless Man", the entire crew was directly kicked out of the Universal Studios, so it also caused a lot of hype in the gossip tabloids. Mel . Gibson must also have a good understanding of his position in that incident.
Walking out of the restaurant, Eric and Elizabeth said goodbye to Weinstein and others, and got into Elizabeth's red BMW together.
Elizabeth drove the car and said casually to Eric sitting in the co-pilot: "You don't seem to like Mel Gibson very much?"
Eric I said so-called: "It doesn't matter whether you like it or not. His movies are still good, but the character is a little worse, and, you know. Although the stars rarely have contact with the studios, most of them are managed by agents. Do it for you, but it’s still rare for stars to get too close to the top of the studio because everyone’s position is different, especially when it comes to talking about pay.”
Elizabeth smiled. Said: "So everyone is very envious of fireflies."
Eric asked suspiciously, "What?"
Elizabeth explained: "The protagonists in the cartoons produced by Firefly are the most worry-free 'stars' in Hollywood, and they won't negotiate with their bosses about remuneration.
They don't play tricks, they don't go on strike, they work hard without complaining, and they give you the right to use their image to make more money. "
Eric smiled slightly, realized something again, and asked, "Fox also wants to do cartoons?"
"Yeah, but our side is not as willing to burn money as you are, although Dad firmly controls News Corporation. But after all, we still have to explain to our shareholders. If you spend too much money on preliminary research and development, but you can't get results. , it must be troublesome. My father envy you very much. Firefly is not listed. You don’t have to accept all kinds of information disclosure every year, and you don’t have to laboriously explain the strategic intention of a business behavior to shareholders. Sigh Last year, News Corp.'s accounting expenses due to various audits exceeded $12 million, which is enough money to make a good movie."
Eric ignored the girl's complaint. He asked, "So what are you going to do?"
"Fox plans to try 2D animation first, which is relatively simple and requires little investment, and it is easier to find hand-painted animation staff."
Eric almost blurted out that I can provide you with 'talents'. but. If it was another company, Eric might have done it without hesitation, but he still couldn't do it with his own woman.
"Don't do 2D animation, I tell you, I'm already planning to shut down Disney's hand-drawn animation department, you either don't do it. If you want to do it, go directly to 3D animation."
Elizabeth widened her eyes and asked in surprise, "What, are you going to shut down Disney Animation Studios?"
Eric shook his head and said: "Of course not, I just plan to stop the production of 2D hand-drawn animation, and Disney Animation Studio will conduct a full digital transformation."
Elizabeth pondered for a while, and probably understood Eric's intention to do this, and blinked her eyes enviously: "It's easier for you to transform into 3D animation, just transfer the technology accumulated by Pixar to Disney Animation Studio. Well, we have to start from scratch here."
Eric looked at the girl's pitiful appearance and smiled: "It's useless to blink, I don't have enough people on my side. Firefly plans to expand the animation department to one or two movies a year. But now Pixar can only produce one movie every two years.”
"Of course I don't want people from your side," Elizabeth blinked again: "Just license the 3D animation production software dedicated to Pixar Studios to Fox, and the price is up to you."
Eric still shook his head: "Unless your animation studio sells me 51% of the shares, ask your father if he is willing."
"I don't want to," Elizabeth replied immediately for Murdoch, and then glared at Eric with her eyes closed, and focused on driving.
She already knew that there was little hope in this matter, or that there was no hope at all. The reason why Firefly was able to monopolize the huge profits of 3D animation in recent years was because of Pixar's absolutely leading technological advantages. Although Firefly Software began to publicly release maya software for special effects production in the digital field after its establishment, the digital field even publicly stated that the publicly released maya is a castrated version, and the most core technologies are still firmly in the hands of the digital field. .
Therefore, if Eric really agrees to this matter, Elizabeth will feel that there is a problem in it.
The two drove slowly up the Beverly Hills road late at night. Eric glanced at the roadside inadvertently and asked, "Trousdale Manor should be heading east, right?"
Just as Elizabeth was about to speak, Eric remembered the car he was sitting in, and quickly said, "I know I know. It's a new residence."
Elizabeth snorted softly before saying, "We now live on Crest Street on the top of the mountain."
Eric doesn't know where Crest Street is, but he prefers Trousdale Manor, where Hollywood stars gather, which is the area with the best view of Hollywood. Sitting by the pool on the villa terrace gives a sense of commanding suspension: "I still think the Trousdale villa is good."
Elizabeth said bitterly: "Anyway, I don't want to be a neighbor with that crazy girl Drew."
"I thought you guys were reconciled, what a big deal, haven't you figured it out already?"
"Hmph," Elizabeth snorted, turning her head to ignore Eric.
The mansions in Beverly Hills are more luxurious though. But the infrastructure between the mountain roads is really poor, old telephone poles, street lights that only appeared far away, and bare hillsides. The car went all the way up the mountain road, and Eric was even worried about a soil and water. If you don't keep it well, something will roll down the slope.
Finally at the top of the mountain, the red BMW drove into a manor. Eric stood in front of the courtyard and looked around, surprised. This place not only overlooks the entire Los Angeles, but also can see the valley area to the north. The field of vision is definitely wider than that of Rollsdale Manor.
Elizabeth looked at Eric's reaction with a little smugness, and said, "This mansion occupies a hilltop. It's not worse than Rollsdale Manor at all, right?"
"Of course," Eric nodded with satisfaction, looking at the mountain road leading to Burbank on the other side of the hillside. It seems that it can lead to the Firefly headquarters in Burbank. This road is definitely better than that of Eric in recent days. It was much closer and said, "I just happened to be too busy to go back to Malibu recently, so I live here."
Elizabeth blushed and said, "Didn't you plan to ask my master's opinion first?"
Eric smiled and said, "I've already agreed. What else do I ask?"
Elizabeth raised her toes and gently kicked Eric's leg before she said unwillingly, "Let's go in, do you want coffee?"
It was only ten o'clock, and Eric didn't have many pajamas. Nodding: "Okay."
The two pushed open the villa door together and walked into the living room. There was only a dim yellow wall lamp in the living room. Before Elizabeth could turn on the fluorescent lamp in the living room, the two noticed a clear white light coming from the kitchen.
"Maybe Julia forgot to close the refrigerator door," Elizabeth said indifferently.
Eric narrowed his eyes cautiously and pointed his finger. Elizabeth looked over and saw a white shadow near the refrigerator.
"We don't have pets, what is it?" Elizabeth was not worried, she turned on the fluorescent light, and the two walked towards the kitchen together, and saw a small person sitting on the floor holding a chocolate cake Eating deliciously, there are still bottles and jars that fell out of the refrigerator scattered around the little man.
Elizabeth walked over quickly, more than the chocolate cake in the little guy's hand, and asked, "Emma, why are you here?"
Emma whined in dissatisfaction when Elizabeth took away the things in her hands. Eric also saw that the little guy had cream all over his face, like a dirty kitten, a little angry and funny. He said, "Don't you have a babysitter at home?"
When Emma heard Eric's figure, she turned her little head and looked over. She stared at Eric for two seconds, and immediately extended two small hands to Eric with joy: "Dad...Dad."
Elizabeth stared at Eric helplessly, but she no longer tried to correct Emma's name, but the little guy handed it over and said, "You hold it first, I'll see if Carly is there, why is this?"
Eric thought that Carrie in Elizabeth's mouth should be Emma's nanny, and he took the dirty little guy from Elizabeth's hands without hesitation, and the two walked out of the kitchen together.
Watching Elizabeth turn around and walk into a corridor, Eric sat down on the sofa in the living room with the little guy in his arms, and asked softly, "Emma, why are you in the kitchen alone?"
The three-year-old Emma has no problem communicating with words. Hearing Eric's words, the little guy hugged his stomach pitifully: "Emma, hungry, aunt, don't give me something to eat."
A black line immediately appeared on Eric's forehead. It wasn't that serious.
Elizabeth quickly led a fat white woman in blue pajamas to the living room, and pointed angrily to Emma and the mess in the kitchen: "How do you take care of the child, fortunately she just ate Cake, what if you swallow something else and get stuck?"
The nanny named Carly looked aggrieved: "Miss Murdoch, this matter... It's not my fault for this matter, Miss Roberts came back at night and said that she would take care of Emma herself, or she would put Emma to sleep tonight. "
Eric took out the tissue paper from the carton on the table to help the little guy clean the cream on his face, and asked, "Has Emma had dinner?"
Of course, the nanny knew who Eric was, and shook his head cautiously: "This, Mr. Williams, I... I don't know. After Miss Roberts said she would take care of Emma herself, I went back to the room to rest."
Eric shook his head with a smile. It seemed that the problem was on Julia's side. He waved his hand and said, "Go and rest first."
The nanny pointed to the mess and asked, "Do you want me to clean the kitchen?"
"No need," Eric shook his head.
After the nanny left, Eric handed Emma wrapped around him to Elizabeth: "Go and give the little guy a bath first, I'll see what happened to Julia, which room is she in?"
Elizabeth also understood the crux of the matter at this time. She felt helpless about Julia's carelessness. She pointed to the stairs and said, "The first room upstairs is the one."
Eric took out a few pieces of paper and wiped the cream that Emma had put on his chest, and walked towards the stairs. Elizabeth glanced at Eric's back before taking the little guy to the bathroom.
Eric walked upstairs, pushed open the door of a bedroom, turned on the light, and saw that Julia was lying on the big bed in an unimpressive manner, with only a thin blanket covering her body, and the air was in the air. There was also a faint smell of wine, which made him even more angry. (To be continued.)