The Goddess Shines on America

Once ambition is inflated, it is difficult to control.

The source of inspiration for entrepreneurship and investment is of course also explosive.

Alice counts her current business. Cisco does not need to worry about it at all. Driven by the rapid development of the global Internet, as long as the technology is guaranteed, it is not a problem to go public with an annual profit of 60 million in the early 1990s.

Just like at present, the company has only been established for a few months, and orders of one million yuan from seven or eight universities have already been received. Based on the current productivity of the two Bosaks, these hundreds of routers are enough for them to be busy for a while. The current office location is their living room. When the company really needs to rent a few offices to recruit employees, it's not too late for Alice to hang out from time to time.

As for Microsoft, it is more, more unnecessary to intervene. With 35% of the shares in hand, and the price of Windows 1.0 is $100, she just waits for the dividends. Including the profits from the current DOS system, Gates has to transfer hundreds of thousands of yuan into her account every month.

If it stops here, this achievement is already jaw-dropping. You know, after all, Alice is only twelve or thirteen years old, and her family was originally an upper-middle-class family with little savings, and these two companies have already brought in a monthly income of nearly one million dollars. It is no exaggeration to say that it takes about a year to become a multi-millionaire?

But when Alice suddenly had a big brain hole and wanted to open up the mainland clothing market, she realized that she still had a broken pattern.

Even if the prices in the mainland were not high at that time, the exchange rate with the U.S. dollar was about 1:2.3. The entire 9.6 million square kilometers was not small compared to the entire African continent. If you want to make a lot of money, you must first have money. OK……

Fortunately, Alice learned through repeated investigations in Chinatown that "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" has only just been released in the mainland after all, and it has not even finished a quarter of the episodes. The whole country, it will definitely take a while. After all, in her previous life, this TV series was broadcast as early as 1980, and it affected the entire 1980s, and she still had time.

Coincidentally, if you really want to enter the clothing market in mainland China, there will be a lot of matters related to the establishment of the company, not to mention that Ashley is only in the blueprint design stage. Under the premise that all aspects will take time, Alice is relieved. Concentrate on spending money to save funds.

Money is not everything, but without money it is absolutely impossible!

"Ghost Story", this is really a work that surprised and delighted her. At least, its shooting requirements are much lower than those of other movies. Even if I am only twelve or thirteen years old as a director, people will not feel any special surprise after watching it, only special surprise.

This was originally the debut work of a new director, the cost of the whole film was only 10,000 US dollars, and it was shot with a DV machine. Well, there were no DV machines in the 1980s, but Alice certainly wasn't so poor that she had to suppress the cost so hard.

More than 190 million, which is equivalent to a box office of 200 million US dollars, and the specific plot is just a story that the naughty camera and the family's night life have to tell. Well, it is appropriate to add the house ghost in the house. . So, whether it's a horror movie, a thriller movie, or a ghost movie, if it's done well, it's a product that all businessmen will love to death.

Alice counted back and forth with her fingers and toes, and she didn't think the filming of this movie could take half a month. The length of the film is less than 90 minutes, a family is haunted in the middle of the night, and the peeping perspective of the surveillance camera is obscene, it is basically the rhythm of all the shots being passed through at once.

Therefore, if you really want this movie to achieve a super high box office, publicity is an indispensable link.

In fact, if we really want to say that relying on publicity to achieve a high box office is a typical example, "The Blair Witch" is of course the first to bear the brunt, but Alice has no intention of considering it at all.

As for the reason, of course she wouldn't say it was because she was too lazy to go to Maryland and get up late~

First, compared to the down-to-earth gimmick of "the house is haunted in the middle of the night", running to the deep mountains and old forests in the eastern United States to find witches is inherently inferior in sense of substitution and connotation. Furthermore... After all, this is not the era of highly developed Internet!

In fact, according to the normal historical development, since the success of "The Blair Witch", many directors who do not have a large amount of financial support but want to show their talents have all thought of DV and documentary-style films. Therefore, they tried their best to get closer to "The Blair Witch" in terms of shooting methods and marketing methods.

Perhaps, the new way of making films shown in "The Blair Witch" is indeed a way out for ultra-low-budget films. "Ghost Story" produced in 2009 actually belongs to this type, but it is worse than blue. Although the former has more box office, its profit margin is not as good as others.

Alice knows that the success of "The Blair Witch" is not so much based on the pseudo-documentary style, but rather on the background that the Internet has just been fully established. In 1999, it was a beautiful summer. At that time, the American people had not yet received the impact of the real information explosion. Faced with this kind of marketing strategy of making up a fictional story and then asking everyone to pay for the target product, of course people swarmed to be fooled.

For example, a 29-second short video that spread all over the Internet and was filmed in the CBD of the Shanghai Metropolis, reflecting the voices of stockholders and the turmoil in the stock market. When it became popular on the Internet, people all over the country cared about the stock market girl, the girl who was screaming because of the abundant funds. The shaking camera shone on the skyscrapers in the CBD, which symbolized the hesitation and desolation of stockholders. Feeling.

As a result, on that day, the entire stock market was in a downturn, and the entire market opened lower and lower. Because that day, the fund managers across the country were not in the mood to speculate in stocks, and they were all concerned about the girl's follow-up situation.

But at this moment, an unpopular stock was rising in a straight line, all the way to the daily limit stage.

Why is this?

Because in that video, the grandmother of the stock market was kneeling on a certain chair and was hit by the heavy capital in the morning. And that unpopular stock happened to be the manufacturer of that chair.

So, the truth of the matter is that this is a game set up by a certain company to make its own stock soar~

Even people after 2010 will be tricked and let each other succeed, so for the American people in 1999, is it not fun to be played by "The Blair Witch"?

Therefore, Alice also planned to intervene.

The film club at UCLA has a long history. After all, Hollywood is located in this city. From time to time, directors can be seen shooting scenes in West Hollywood and Santa Monica. In this unique environment, if their club can’t develop If it is not, it will be sprayed to death by fans all over the country and even the world.

David was born in Denver, and he grew up in Marin County, California. As early as the summer vacation when he was eighteen, he went to Mill Valley to work for a film company. As a result, he was fascinated by it for a while, and even gave up his college studies. , ILM went to Lucas for two years. This September, when everyone else should graduate, he finally entered the gate of UCLA.

And without a doubt, when the club application form was handed to him, he chose the film club without even thinking about it.

"Hey David, you've seen my video too, how do you feel?"

In the club classroom in the afternoon, Minister York excitedly stood in front of the projector and showed David the five-minute short film he made last winter vacation.

"The plot is very interesting, but will it be too procrastinated?"

David said without hesitation: "No matter what the subject matter of a literary and artistic work, one should strive to tell the story clearly in the shortest time, so the plot must be compact. But I see your movie...should be able to tell more Yes, but most of the time is taken up by the nonsense of the protagonists."

After hearing this, York's expression turned a little ugly on the spot.

Just kidding, he is also a junior at any rate, he has been the director of the film club for two years! Even if none of the movies can be seen by the eight aces of Hollywood, and the scripts have been rejected by many small companies, he is still a minister anyway!

Even if this goddamn David Fincher got lucky and worked for Lucas' ILM for two years, what a big deal! ?

York would never admit his envy, jealousy and hatred even if he was killed!

There were other people in the classroom. Seeing York's face was not very good-looking, Jofanie who was sitting on the side smiled and said, "David, York is the director of the dialogue flow. You know, the dialogue is the one that best portrays the image of a character. One man, one man. Girls sit in front of the screen and kiss me, don't they just rely on dialogue to express it?"

David pouted, but said nothing. It is not impossible to use a five-minute short film to shoot a date, but at least it must have a complete plot, right? What the heck is it just random chatter from the start?

York saw that David was still unconvinced, and smiled loudly: "By the way, David, if you really want to talk about qualifications, you are better than us. Otherwise, let's make another movie next." Short film, how about you as the director? I really want to see, as a genius who has worked in Industrial Light and Magic for two years, how high is your level!"

As soon as this remark came out, more than a dozen students from all over the society applauded in unison. After all, David's self-introduction when he joined the company was really amazing. What kind of concept is Lucas? That's the director of "Star Wars". Don't say that David went to Industrial Light \u0026 Magic to become a technician, even if he is just a cleaner, he must be better than ordinary people! ?

"no problem."

After thinking about it, David said: "Since we want to make a film, we should make it better. The cost of filming is not low. Why don't we find an investor. If there are angels willing to invest in our film, I will absolutely I can shoot a work that will appear on the screen!"

This sentence was too much of a joke, David's voice fell, and everyone including York was dumb for a while.

"Wow, so ambitious!"

At this moment, the classroom door was pushed open, and a little girl appeared at the door without warning.

"It seems that my trip to UCLA was not in vain, young man, what's your name, I'm optimistic about you~"

Saying so, Alice winked at David.