Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1569 Not interested in helping you realize your dream

In the [-]s and [-]s, Hollywood was sanctioned by the anti-monopoly law, as well as the diversion of audiences caused by the popularity of television, as well as the rise and impact of Italian neorealist films and French new wave films, and fell into a long-term downturn.

Then, there is the famous hippie movement of rebellion, protest, counter culture, and anti tradition, which advocates extreme individualism.

A large number of new "hippie" directors gradually emerged in the [-]s, Coppola, Spielberg, George Lucas, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Eastwood ... They have reflected on the past genre of "society shaping the big narrative" from form to theme, and gradually become today's Hollywood.

The so-called social shaping of the big narrative refers to the angle of attention when making a movie.

For example, when shooting a war film, it is shot from the perspective of "society shapes the big narrative", that is, a group of military strategists drinking tea, dancing and holding meetings in the rear, discussing, analyzing and showing the military map. It shows their foresight and foresight in making decisions thousands of miles away, and their heroic spirit in which the masts and sculls are wiped out in ashes while talking and laughing.

Then, they develop a strategic plan.

The war begins.

This process does not need to be filmed in too much detail, because the soldiers on the front line are all tools, and they are all pawns for the military strategists in the rear to slap Fang Qiu.As long as the rear military tactics are properly designed, the frontline battlefield can be successful.

Even the famous military biography "General Patton" is shot in this way.

It was different later on, I started to pay attention to the little people and became individualistic.In war movies, no one cares about the wise decisions of the big men in the rear anymore, but the little unknown people who fought bloody battles on the front line. They are the biggest victims who gave their lives to win the war. The most famous His masterpiece is "Saving Private Ryan".

Decades have passed and times have changed.

Now the trend of thought that is gradually rising in Hollywood is feminism and blackism... Except for the "renegade" Spielberg, the older generation of directors are basically marginalized.

This also includes George Lucas.

He actually wants to make a sequel to "Star Wars". He even wrote the outline of the script. It is an atomic world and a microcosm. All the manifestations of the Force in the macrocosm are the inner control of the microcosm.

In other words, all the plots of the past 6 Star Wars movies seem to be decided by the protagonists according to their personal will or not, but in fact, they are all decided long ago in the microcosm.

The microcosm is in charge of the macrocosm, including the minds of the great Star Wars heroes.

Heroes are not heroes, they are all marionettes, victims of the poorest halo of honor in the world.

This will have a very profound significance of cultural review and social reflection. It is the super rebellious spirit of anti-culture, anti-traditional and anti-heroism, and it is a typical hippie spirit.

However, this will completely submerge the beautiful story of "Star Wars" and seriously hurt the feelings of movie fans.

George Lucas has been in operation for several years, and he wants to finish filming his original "Star Wars" story while he is not too old and still has the energy to work.

However, he couldn't do it!

Times have changed.

Now Hollywood is becoming more and more politically correct and commercialized.

George Lucas couldn't make the movies he wanted to make, so he had the idea of ​​selling Lucasfilm outright many times.

However, this was not an easy decision.

In the past few months, Ziweixing Global has repeatedly stated that it wants to buy Lucasfilm.George Lucas was tempted, but never expressed his opinion.

This time Boss Zhou came over in person, even George Lucas was embarrassed to be too careful.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi didn't make things difficult for him, and only talked to him about movies.

When it comes to the "Star Wars" sequel, George Lucas is obviously full of expectations.But it was impossible for Zhou Buqi to agree to this kind of thing. He was not interested in helping the Jewish old man realize his dream and tell his Star Wars story.

In the final analysis, "Star Wars" is a brand, a big IP, and a tool for making money.

If it is an original story by Zhou Buqi, then he will definitely find a way to tell the story according to his own heart. It doesn't matter whether others like it or not, whether it can make money or not, this is his story, this is his dream.He doesn't need to please anyone.

But "Star Wars" is different. This is not his story or his dream, nor is it the dream of people like Guo Pengfei, Chen Dong, Meng Houkun, Aunt Xue, Shi Jinglin, and Sun Guanran.

Abandoning the philosophical and ideological nature of this story, and honestly going to the market to make a lot of money, isn't it good?

The basis of Hollywood is to make money, and to pursue feelings on the basis of making money.

Perhaps the spread of Ziweixing's global investment in the American drama "Game of Thrones" has made people in the industry think that Boss Zhou is a stupid capitalist who likes to pursue feelings with a lot of money, so that George Lucas has some kind of unrealistic fantasy.

Zhou Buqi didn't accept this.

Only make a big fuss about technological reform.

Industrial Light and Magic's binocular 3D technology is very advanced, but it is not enough.If Ziweixing Global acquires Lucasfilm, relying on a powerful industrial group, Lucasfilm can also make breakthroughs in structured light 3D technology and bring more advanced technological concepts to Hollywood!

George Lucas was also interested in the matter.

Shen Xiangyang even said that he would go to Israel in a few days and participate in the acquisition of a company that researches technological innovation and R&D in the field of 3D and computer vision.

George Lucas's understanding of technology is similar to that of Zhou Buqi. He didn't know that Israel has such a strong strength in this field, so he said that if possible, he would also accompany him.

In the evening, Zhou Buqi and his party returned to Los Angeles.

Before leaving, the talents of Ziwei Star Global sent the first quotation to George Lucas in private: 28.2 billion US dollars.

George Lucas smiled slightly, but still had no feedback.

On the way back, Zhou Buqi still took the same car with Shen Xiangyang and asked, "Going to Israel?"

Shen Xiangyang nodded, "Yes, I'm going."

Zhou Buqi said: "Didn't you say that there are two companies doing better in this field, the American one and the Israeli one."

Shen Xiangyang said: "The American company is an optical components company and a hardware company. It is too difficult to acquire. The Israeli company is researching the direction of the system and is a software company. It is relatively easy to get."

Zhou Buqi let out an "oh".

Shen Xiangyang went on to say: "Under the theoretical route of structured light, there will be many subdivided technical genres. The related system technologies of hardware companies are often matched with their own hardware, just like Sony's combination of software and hardware, external compatibility Not strong. Israeli companies do not consider hardware, but only study the systematic application of structured light, and will focus on the development of underlying patents of some technical genres.”

Fingerprint unlocking is a relatively mature technology, and the threshold is not too high.

If Aster mobile phone launches a fingerprint unlocking mobile phone, other mobile phone manufacturers can quickly follow suit. There are too many fingerprint unlocking solutions in the world.

But face recognition is different.

This is a cutting-edge subject.

If Aster mobile phone launches a face recognition mobile phone based on 3D structured light technology, other mobile phone manufacturers will not be able to follow suit.Because this technology is so new, no second company in the world can find a solution that can be applied in the market.

If you want to buy it from Aster, the price will be ridiculously high, and you can't afford it at all.

Just like Apple in the previous life, it launched the iPhone X, the face recognition mobile phone for the first time.Other mobile phones can't follow up at all, because Apple acquired the Israeli company PrimeSense, thus obtaining their 3D speckle structured light technology and possessing a technological monopoly.

Other mobile phone manufacturers do not have enough technology, so they can only launch a variety of low-end 2D outdated face recognition unlocking solutions to catch this wave of enthusiasm.

It was not until many years later that domestic mobile phone manufacturers finally obtained the solution authorization of 3D coded structured light technology from Mantis Visual Effects, an emerging technology company in Israel.

Compared with the speckle structured light technology owned by Apple, the coded structured light technology has many disadvantages, such as high cost, immature, poor accuracy.But at least this is a real 3D structured light solution, and there is no need to fool consumers with fake face recognition.

Coincidentally, the Israeli company that Shen Xiangyang was interested in happened to be PrimeSense, the Israeli company that Apple acquired in his previous life.

This is also normal. [-]D face recognition is very cutting-edge, and there are very few companies that have studied it.There are even fewer [-]D face recognition companies based on structured light. The current mainstream is ToF technology and the binocular technology brought up by "Avatar".

As long as the direction of structured light is determined, PrimeSense is almost the only commercial company that has made certain research results in the field of 3D structured light.

Shen Xiangyang smiled and said, "I suggest that you can also go to Israel."

"I?"

"Didn't George Lucas say that he is also very interested in new 3D technology solutions, and he will go with our team. Just on the way, you can talk to him about the acquisition of Lucasfilm. "

Zhou Buqi pondered for a while, "Alright, then I will go to Israel with you."

Shen Xiangyang asked: "Now there is a question, in the name of which company are you talking about the acquisition?"

"What do you think?"

"It's better not to let domestic companies bear the burden. This is a very cutting-edge technology. Although it is not included in the US export ban to China, the review will definitely face heavy pressure and the risk is too high. Let me say, the most It’s best to buy it in the name of Ziweixing Global, or Ziweixing Digital Media.”

Zhou Buqi said: "It makes sense, then Ziweixing Universal, after the acquisition of Lucasfilm is completed, it can be matched."

Owning technology is not the same as getting technology license.

It is easier for domestic companies to spend money abroad to buy authorizations for technical solutions.It is almost impossible to go abroad to acquire a technology company to obtain a monopoly on related technologies.

This is also one of the reasons why it is difficult for domestic technology companies to grow bigger and stronger.

There is no technology giant in the world that simply relies on the scientific research strength of a certain country and a certain region to develop. It must develop a global layout, search for technical talents all over the world, and find technologies that match its own technology. Plan to complete technology complementarity and technology upgrade.

3D structured light will still be mainly applied to Aster mobile phones in the future, but it is not appropriate to acquire it in the name of Aster Group.It is better to acquire the technology monopoly in the name of Ziweixing Global, and then authorize it to the Asda Group to use it on the Aster mobile phone.

(End of this chapter)