I'm not just a director

Chapter 129 The colder the weather, the more energetic the penguins
After the premiere, there will be media interviews.

Compared with the "Sao Hua" speech before the premiere, Jiang Pei'an's private interviews were much more restrained.

The media are not worried that there will be no news tomorrow.

Jiang Pei'an's "Chinese movies are turkeys" is enough to occupy a large page.

What's more, the quality of "Taken" is high enough, and the material for film reviews is enough.

After the interview, Jiang Pei'an sent messages to Gao Yuanyuan and Hu Jing respectively, saying that he still had some social engagements before sneaking out through the back door.

If you don't slip away at this time, when will you wait, and you will definitely be put into an embarrassing situation of "the king sees the king" in the end.

From January 2001, 1, "Taken" began to premiere.

Regarding the box office on the first day, it is expected to wait another two days.

The current box office is not as accurate and fast as the big data of later generations, it needs manual calculations one by one.

After the mainland premiere, the Hong Kong province will be released on January 1.

The focus of Jiang Pei'an's next work is to lead a team to Hong Kong for publicity.

In fact, the corresponding publicity work has already started simultaneously with the mainland.

But Jiang Pei'an still prefers the Hong Kong market, especially for the "self-esteem" of the Hong Kong media and individual artists.

He wanted to see the faces of this group of people earlier.

Are you talking nonsense with your eyes open, or are you just following the trend?
Should be fun.

……

"Taken: A Fabulous Action Movie Feast!"

"Huaxia movies are turkeys? No, starting from "Taken", it began to morph into a scarab!"

""Taken": Jiang Pei'an is very good and strong!"

"The most powerful father, go to the end of the world to save his daughter!"

Beijing Airport.

Jiang Pei'an took today's newspaper and read it.

Film and television publications are basically half of the section taken up by "Taken".

The other half is "Happy Time" by Lao Mouzi.

As a movie released at the same time, there was a war of words long ago.

Now that the movies of the two are published in the media and newspapers at the same time, it seems to continue to fight in the ring.

What made Jiang Pei'an feel the most amusing was the teasing of sand sculpture netizens after the premiere yesterday:
"After watching Director Jiang's "Hurricane Rescue", I have the following insights, which are for reference only.

1. You have to listen to your father, especially the police father, to have a chance of being rescued.

2. Do not strike up a conversation with strangers, especially when the other party is a handsome guy, or you will be deceived and lose your freedom and even your life.

3. Keep a virgin body, so that it is more sought-after in the black market, and you can have time to wait for rescue.

4. Doing things for the unit, if you just get a salary, you can’t support your family, so...

5. How important it is to know a foreign language, it can play a huge role at critical moments.

6. Hiding under the bed can only delay time, or you will be caught.

In short, for the sake of safety, it is best not to go to strange places if you are underage or alone~"

This summary is not unreasonable, and it can even be said that I am definitely watching the movie seriously.

Jiang Pei'an continued to flip through another page of the newspaper:
"'Happy Days' - A Good Lie."

""Happy Time", bitter passers-by also have sunshine."

""Happy Time", Dong Jie: I was able to get the position of heroine, thanks to Jiang Pei'an's behind the scenes!"

"Mediocre, nothing special, Zhang Yimou's downhill work!"

Lao Mouzi's new movie is different from most of the positive reviews of "Taken" in terms of public opinion reports.

If you put it on the Internet articles of later generations, Jiang Pei'an's "Hurricane Rescue" is a cool article from the beginning to the end.

Lao Mouzi's strength is stable, but he occasionally suffers from poisoning and Wen Qing's illness, which greatly affects the perception.

Especially the movie's criticized ending directly affects the whole movie.

Otherwise, Lao Mouzi would not have urgently revised the ending after the movie was released.

But the revised ending didn't please. In order to sensationalize, a car accident happened forcibly.

This also caused controversy among many fans of the film.

The modified version of the ending, the quality of the film has dropped a lot.

Anyway, it's wrong not to change it, and it's wrong to change it. It's wrong to make Lao Mouzi inside and out.

Jiang Pei'an also thought about making a suggestion to Lao Mouzi, after all, Lao Mouzi also accompanied him when he was interviewed.

But after thinking about it later, I really might not be able to persuade Lao Mouzi.

People say: Do you know what art is?
He was beaten to death.

Directors who like to make art films are mostly paranoid, the kind who rush forward with one muscle.

There are too many such directors to list.

Lao Mouzi is pretty good, he is able to compromise with the market part and knows how to be flexible.

For example, in later generations he announced the filming of the online drama "League of Legends".

Lao Mouzi wanted to make this web drama very handsome, cool and sassy.

As for the result...

"Director Jiang, are you really not going to Hong Kong Province with us?"

At the airport lobby, the production director Gao Chengsheng came over and asked.

Jiang Pei'an shook his head and said:
"You guys go first, I'll go to Shencheng to do something."

"Okay, then let's see each other in Shencheng."

Gao Chengsheng respected Jiang Pei'an's opinion very much.

The two were in a cooperative relationship before, and at most they had a good friendship.

But as soon as "Taken" was released, the public opinion reports were almost all positive.

In Gao Chengsheng's heart, Jiang Pei'an's status has been automatically advanced to the "upper level".

Jiang Pei'an wanted to leave the team, so he naturally couldn't stop him.

……

Shencheng Huaqiang North SEG Science and Technology Park.

As the largest "technology group" in China in later generations, Huaqiangbei, which claims to buy Apple at 500, is not yet so famous at this time.

These are several buildings. Jiang Pei'an looked at the sign in the stairwell and walked to the fifth floor.

Walking to a glass door, through the glass, there are people who are constantly busy.

A whirring air conditioner, crackling keyboards, and a computer with a big ass.

If it wasn't for the blue and white lattice room, others would think it was an Internet cafe.

"Who are you looking for?"

asked a man wearing black-rimmed glasses.

"Hello, I'm looking for Mr. Ma."

"President Ma?"

The man didn't react for a while, pushed the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and suddenly realized:
"Oh, you are looking for a horseman, he is in a meeting, please wait a moment."

Horseman?

Jiang Pei'an was right when he thought about it. Brother Xiao Ma is still struggling to type code.

Even for Penguin's business, she turned into a beautiful woman and chatted with others online.

However, this routine is a bit old. If it becomes a tea girl whose grandfather is seriously ill and guards the tea garden with no sales, he should probably be able to make a fortune.

I don't want to sell penguins for 100 million cheap.

Jiang Pei'an came to the current Penguin headquarters.

In his previous life, he had experienced the baptism of the Internet, and he knew the awesomeness of Internet companies.

After Zhao Gege and the incident in Hong Kong Province, as well as this "space battle" between him and Lao Mouzi, he knew the importance of Internet public opinion.

This year, Huaxia Internet ushered in its first cold winter.

When people realize that the "eyeball economy" of the Internet cannot create real economic value.

The Internet has changed from a hot potato to a hot potato.

Since its establishment in 1998, the number of registrations has grown rapidly, and Penguin has always been a loss-making business.

Kong has more than ten million supporters, but he can't even afford the server hosting fee of 2000 yuan.

This is absolutely unimaginable scene in later generations.

It is said that the current penguins can only be used to rub against other people's servers.

At first, an ordinary PC was placed in a computer room with broadband conditions.

Then secretly put the program into someone else's server to run.

Brother Ma, you are a genius!

Rapidly growing users require higher operating costs, but Penguin has no way to cash in and can only continue to burn money.

The harsh environment of the Internet makes all Internet investors tremble.

Little Ma wants to sell the penguin to keep the company alive.

Brother Xiao Ma found a pig farm, but the farm owner didn't like it because he was more optimistic about the mailbox at that time. He thought that Penguin's technical content was too low, so it failed.

Brother Xiao Ma went to Guangdong Telecom again. Telecom was only willing to pay 60 yuan, but Brother Xiao Ma insisted on selling it for 100 million yuan.

Brother Xiao Ma went to the bank for a loan again. The bank said that he had never heard of a mortgage loan based on the "number of registered users".

When negotiating with domestic investors, most of the other parties are concerned about how many computers and other fixed assets Penguin has.

In order to feed the penguins, Xiao Ma and Zhang Zhidong personally took the lead in doing some small projects for the website.

Including the mail system of the Shencheng Information Bureau.

But the income from these small projects still struggles to feed the penguins...

In the office, Xiao Ma and his partner Zhang Zhidong are sitting on the sofa.

The two of them didn't say a word, they smoked one cigarette after another, and the whole office was filled with smoke and gloom.

"IDG has passed the gas, and has decided to divest, and is now going home."

Zhang Zhidong stubbed out the cigarette butt and said with a sigh.

Brother Xiao Ma added another one for him, and asked with a sad face:
"Where is Yingke?"

"It's probably not far away. None of these two families want to be taken advantage of."

Zhang Zhidong lit a cigarette and said.

In July 2000, Yingke and IDG injected $7 million into Penguin, each holding 220% ​​of the shares.

But that money quickly ran out, mostly on servers and bandwidth.

The money is spent easily and clearly, but the direction of making money has not yet been determined.

They vaguely stated in the prospectus that they would rely on online advertising and membership fees.

With the rapid decline of the global Internet industry in the second half of 2000, the attitude of venture capital began to waver.

The two want to withdraw.

"Hey, if the capital is withdrawn..."

Zhang Zhidong sighed and did not continue.

Brother Xiao Ma nodded, the consequences of divestment are very serious, and the current Penguin simply can't afford it.

"It would be great if a good fortune boy descended from the sky, Mazu bless you!"

Brother Xiao Ma took a puff of cigarette, raised his head and blew smoke rings towards the roof.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Mr. Ma, Mr. Jiang is looking for you."

"Mr. Jiang? Is it a client who saw our advertisement?"

"I don't know."

Zhang Zhidong shook his head.

"Ask him to come in, Lao Zhang, and open the window to let out the smell of smoke."

Zhang Zhidong opened the window and left the office.

When the cold wind blew in, Brother Ma immediately became much more energetic.

He straightened his clothes and sat upright on the office chair.

Business still needs to be carried out, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat!
Jiang Pei'an walked into the office and took a sniff. There was a strong smell of smoke.

Later generations said that Brother Xiao Ma smokes very fiercely, and it is true.

Brother Xiao Ma at this time is much more extroverted than later generations.

In later generations, he has always appeared in the world with elegance and prudence.

Now he certainly didn't take into account the little oil stains on the white shirt.

"Hi Mr. Ma, my name is Jiang Pei'an, and I am here today mainly to consult about your company's business."

"Hello, what kind of work do you do?"

Jiang Pei'an smiled slightly, sat on the sofa and said:

"I work in the film and television industry and am a director."

"director?"

Brother Xiao Ma looked at Jiang Pei'an and muttered something.

But he suddenly came to his senses, looked at Jiang Pei'an and asked tentatively:

"Excuse me, are you the director of "Taken", Director Jiang Pei'an?"

As a heavy Internet user, he naturally knew about the vigorous "Zhangjiang War" on the Internet some time ago.

He had also seen Jiang Pei'an's photo before, but when the real person appeared in front of him, he didn't react for a while.

Jiang Pei'an smiled and said:
"If there's no one else named Peian Jiang who also directed "Taken," it should be me."

"It's really you, Director Jiang, I'm your fan!"

Brother Xiao Ma stood up excitedly.

Jiang Pei'an smiled and said:
"Have you seen "Taken"?"

Hearing this, Xiao Ma sat down awkwardly, and said with a smile:

"The company is too busy and I don't have time to go."

It was just a scene, but I didn't expect the other party to take it seriously.

After teasing Brother Ma, Jiang Pei'an's wicked taste was greatly satisfied.

In future generations, he will have no chance to joke with such a "predator".

The two chatted for a while, and Jiang Pei'an discovered that Xiao Ma was very talkative, and his ideas were wild.

Of course, this is also a necessary standard for the first batch of people in China to start an Internet business.

"Mr. Ma, I won't play around with you anymore. I plan to invest in your company when I come here this time."

"Crack it."

Although Xiao Ma tried his best to remain calm, the sound of the armrest of the chair being broken by him still betrayed his inner ecstasy.

Jiang Pei'an looked at the broken armrest of the chair.

Grasp of immortality?

"Ugh...the chair is so bad I've been meaning to replace it.

I would like to ask Director Jiang, you are from the film and television industry, why do you want to do nothing about the Internet? "

Brother Xiao Ma asked while hiding his embarrassment.

What else can it be for, of course it is for your future business empire!

Of course, Jiang Pei'an didn't say this, but joked:
"I love that instant messenger you guys made, I'm a fan of it."

"What's your number?"

Brother Xiaoma immediately asked.

Jiang Pei'an rolled his eyes at him, this product is ready to use!
I have a Koukou number, and there are many more, but I just don’t know if I can log in to your server now!

On the issue of investment, Xiao Ma asked Jiang Pei'an to talk a lot.

If someone sends money, he can't wait for it, don't care what the intention is, just get through it first!

Besides, what can Penguin Jiang Pei'an plan at this juncture?
"Since IDC and Yingke decided to divest, I will buy all their shares.

In addition, I also need you to contribute another 11% of the equity. "

After understanding the current situation of the penguins, Jiang Pei'an spoke directly.

Brother Xiao Ma was stunned!
"May I ask, Director Jiang should know that this is the time when the Internet is in recession, right?"

Jiang Pei'an's straightforwardness made Xiao Ma feel a little overwhelmed.

"I know, but what does that have to do with penguins.

The bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish. Similarly, the penguins from Antarctica, the colder the weather, the more energetic they are.

I have confidence in you! "

……

　Thank you Qingxu Daodezhenjun brothers for your reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)