In addition to the public two-day itinerary, Simon's trip to China is planned to last a total of two weeks. After Yangshuo, I originally planned to visit other places, but this landscape is so beautiful, and after experiencing such scenery, there is really no need to pay attention to the second-level scenery.
So we stayed for five days in total.
Boating, dancing, mountain climbing, tea tasting every day... you won't want to leave.
The last stop before departure was at Shunan Bamboo Sea.
Mainly Janet wanted to visit.
Ang Lee had already begun to conceive of the script for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 1993 during the filming of "Eat Drink, Couple", but it was shelved because all parties' conditions were immature. After the last meeting, Ang Lee stopped preparations for "The Ice Storm" and started to turn to this movie. Because many details had been brewing for a long time, it only took more than a week to complete the first draft of the script, which was communicated to Simon.
When Janet accompanied Simon to read the script on the terrace of the other courtyard, she saw the man casually sketching the bamboo forest battle scene of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the manuscript paper, and heard Simon talk about the vast and magnificent bamboo sea scenery. Interest in the position.
Speaking of which, due to the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", China's Bamboo Sea landscape became famous both at home and abroad. It later became a holy place for many domestic and foreign tourists, and gradually evolved into one of the country's tourism business cards. However, there are many opinions as to where the bamboo sea battle scene in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was filmed.
Because there are many bamboo sea landscapes in China, Shunan Bamboo Sea is just one of them.
Simon had no time to dwell on this.
Now that we have come to the Shunan Bamboo Sea, we can decide directly.
This vast bamboo sea covers an area of more than 120 square kilometers. It not only has natural bamboo scenery, but also has no shortage of strange peaks, overhanging walls, mountains, streams and quiet lakes under the creation of heaven and earth. There are also various ancient temples, mountain pavilions and pavilions with thousands of years of history. The building platform fully meets all the framing needs of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in my memory.
So after arriving, Simon asked someone to take a batch of photos and send them to Li An.
In fact, the details, including personally finalizing the actor who will play Yu Jiaolong, are all to save preparation time. There is no need to worry about these trivial matters, and Ang Lee will have more time to carefully polish the film.
May 4th, Saturday.
After seeing the scenery of the Bamboo Sea, this trip to China has come to an end.
Come in joy and return in joy.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Westeros family's private Boeing 767 departed from Chengdu without any stops and flew directly to Los Angeles on the other side of the ocean. Chen Qing and others who had been with the Simons during this period stayed temporarily. Domestic processing follow-up. Prior to this, all the core members of the Westeros system who visited China last week have returned, including the US government delegation headed by the Secretary of Commerce.
Inside the Boeing 767 cabin.
After resting for two consecutive weeks to recuperate his energy, Simon returned to work after an estimated flight time of 15 hours.
"The cooperation agreement between Levison Group and Hilton Hotel Group has been reached and will be signed next Monday. Walmart has contacted Levison Group in recent days and hopes to discuss the establishment of a Beijing branch in Levison International Center. Levison Group has Bian is controversial about this project. Wal-Mart's presence will bring a lot of traffic, but it will also lower the style of the Levison International Center. In addition, the relevant documents also include a list of all companies that have reached an agreement to move in."
"The Chinese side basically agrees with the three conditions put forward by Mr. Mickey Kanter regarding the film industry. It is expected to be implemented together with China's latest "Film Management Regulations" at the end of this month. Boss, I got a copy of the "Film Management Regulations" Internal manuscripts and formal provisions should not change much, and I have marked some of the provisions that require attention."
"Verizon's first prospectus is scheduled to be filed with the SEC next week, and related documents have also been marked."
"Emmanuel Brandt has completed the negotiations with the residents around the FusionTimes company headquarters site, and can start planning and construction. In addition, there are the latest batch of resumes of applicants who have entered the final interview process. I helped the boss arrange an in-person meeting next Wednesday. Interview schedule.”
“Kevin Watson, an engineer at SpaceX, proposed a plan to build a simulated rocket launch system, which can integrate all the software and hardware equipment required for rocket launches into a simulated system to conduct thousands of virtual launches at the lowest cost. Test component performance. This engineer proposed this plan during his time at NASA, but was rejected many times. However, the SpaceX team agreed that this plan is very practical and can help test most of SpaceX’s own accessories, and they Together, we compressed the initial budget of US$7 million to, well... US$1.2 million. Watson has already written a set of aerospace control software with a budget of only US$10,000, which has successfully passed the testing of NASA protocols and can be used in this simulation system. and real rockets in the future. I checked, and the minimum budget for several similar NASA projects in previous years was US$10 million.”
"This information comes from the coffee plantations in Angola, Africa. According to the report of Mr. Victor Melisis, as of the end of April, the first batch of 50,000 acres of coffee seedlings had been planted there, with a total cost of US$7.35 million. , it is expected that the remaining 100,000 acres of land can be planted in the same period next year, because the foundation for the purchase of agricultural machinery and manpower training has been laid this year. Mr. Melisis predicts that only US$10 million will be needed to complete the development of the remaining land next year. In addition, in 1999 Before the first batch of coffee is harvested, about US$5 million needs to be invested every year.”
"Mr. Anthony Johnston sent a bidding document for the privatization of Vale in Brazil. Japan is very determined in this bidding and is expected to become the main competitor of Johnston Holdings. I suggest that the boss try to use Washington With the current tense trade relations between the United States and Japan, Washington certainly does not want Japan to control a large mining giant."
"Yigeret Company has reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee to play videos of previous Olympic Games on YouTube. The YouTube platform did not pay fees, but promised promotion resources and long-term advertising sharing. In addition, Ygritte Recently, we have also negotiated with more than 150 top athletes in various fields to join the YouTube platform."
"Also, um, an email from the White House is still asking the boss for his views on the recent trend of Nasdaq. This should be a continuation of Mr. President's phone call a few days ago. At the close of yesterday, the Nasdaq had reached 3925 points, breaking With 4,000 approaching, the White House should be very anxious about this."
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"Finally, on the Hollywood side, Emmerich's "Day Alone" will start shooting next week. In Los Angeles, there will be a pre-start cocktail party tonight, hosted by MGM, which will mainly entertain "Day Alone Day." A group of investors from all sides of the packaged project, Ms. Lansing hopes the boss will be here tonight.”
"The crew of "Twister" has arrived in Iowa and will officially start filming next week."
"The set of "Titanic" on the Gold Coast of Australia has been completed. However, Mr. Cameron has some ideas about special effects and is experimenting with the Daenerys special effects team. The start date of filming has been postponed to next day. months."
"And, this is the movie schedule list for this summer."
Simon sat behind the desk in the study room in the forward cabin, listening to Girl A quickly introduce the list of documents that needed to be reviewed by him. There were also two large piles of documents piled up on the desk in front of him that he could not finish all the way.
When Girl A finally stopped reporting, Simon had already read the first document about the company entering the Levison International Center. He raised his pen to mark a few sentences on it, handed it to Alison and said: "Tell the Levison Group. We must win this Wal-Mart project, there is no need for us to compete with the International Trade Center in terms of style and positioning for such boring things.”
Girl A nodded, but said: "Boss, I think we can compromise a little and put Wal-Mart on the underground floor. There are such underground supermarkets in New York and London, which can maximize the use of space and the rent is also quite affordable. I Walmart, which attaches great importance to cost control, will definitely be willing, and the above-ground part can still maintain the occupancy specifications of the Levison International Center."
Simon had just opened the second "Film Management Regulations" document. After hearing this, he looked up at Alison and said with a smile: "I think you should be in charge of this project. There are a bunch of idiots over there."
Girl A curved her mouth in response, but said nothing.
The Levison International Center is currently only a preliminary plan. The specific design will begin after the potential users are roughly finalized. There are still two years to start the actual construction. The plan to add an additional basement-level supermarket is easy. After thinking about it for a while, Simon nodded and said: "That's it. Do it, tell them over there, just say that I came up with this idea, and let those idiots reflect on it, that’s why I am the super rich man.”
"Okay, boss."
"Besides, I will show off at the cocktail party you just mentioned."
The West Coast of the United States happens to be 15 hours behind China. Simon arrived in Los Angeles. It was still Saturday afternoon there, and the evening cocktail party would not be delayed.
Girl A quickly jotted it down on the memo again.
Simon thought for a while and then said: "As for the further reform of the Chinese film industry, as expected, I think China Film must take the lead in establishing the first cinema chain. You ask Amy to contact China Film and actively invite them to the United States for inspection. Dan Oden Cinemas, a subsidiary of Nelis Entertainment, is responsible for the reception, and we can also provide them with cinema management system software."
Alison did not nod this time, but said: "Boss, I think we can go a step further and invite senior executives of China's Ministry of Radio and Television in charge of the film and television industry to conduct inspections and directly promote the full networking of China's theater ticketing system. I have studied it these days Because some of China's theater industry data are basically state-owned, this can be achieved without relying on the theater chain system. Moreover, China's basic communication network has penetrated the country, and the Shanghai data center that will be opened soon can provide data storage for this project. And information processing support, there are no obstacles in terms of software and hardware. China is now eager to promote the development of the information industry, and completing this project will also be a very eye-catching achievement for the officials in charge."
"At the same time, it will offend a lot of people." Simon thought about the local theaters that were grinding their teeth because they couldn't hide the box office after the ticketing system was connected. However, he couldn't blame himself anyway, so he said: "That's it. Also remember to tell them over there. , I also proposed this idea, so I am the super rich man."
Girl A rolled her eyes at someone, lowered her head and wrote down the matter on the memo.
Simon had quickly browsed the "Film Management Regulations" in his hand, which was marked in red with a clause like "the screening time of domestic films in a screening unit shall not be less than 2/3 of the total annual screening time", and felt that Alison was again Looking at himself, he smiled and said, "So, do you have any suggestions about the email from the White House?"
Girl A shook her head this time: "The Nasdaq is now out of control, and our best option is not to interfere. Otherwise, once improper operation causes the stock to collapse, no one can bear the responsibility."
"Then please help me respond to Mr. President, just say that I am very optimistic about the future trend of the Nasdaq. Anyway, he only hopes that the Nasdaq will survive November. As long as the Republican Party does not jump out to cause trouble, this should be no problem."
"Boss, just say half of it. There is no need to say anything else."
"Of course, do I need to remind you? You're so stupid. No wonder you can only work as an assistant to a super rich man like me."
Girl A pretended to be angry and pouted at someone, continued to write down on the memo, and looked at Simon again.
Simon's eyes have fallen back to the documents in front of him: "That's all for now, I'll talk about the rest after I read these documents."
Alison responded, turned around and quietly exited the study.
The inertia at work got out of control. During this period, Janet ate an airplane meal of unknown origin. Janet ran to take a nap and then looked back. Simon was still sitting at his desk. The flight had already passed for 10 hours. So he sent him to sleep.
When Janet woke me up again, the plane was already over the west coast of the United States.
After briefly washing and tidying up, I found a fixed seat and fastened my seat belt. The Boeing 767 began to lower its altitude and landed smoothly on the runway of Los Angeles International Airport a few minutes later.
After being away for two weeks, I didn’t feel like I was back in my hometown for a long time. Instead, I felt like I was away from home.
The security team and maids who had been traveling with them for two weeks took a vacation on the spot. The new team sent by Dumeijie Manor took over the follow-up. Jennifer also came to pick them up. Janet hugged Jennifer affectionately and talked about China. With all the interesting things going on during the trip, Simon thought of asking how the five little guys were doing.
Of course it's okay.
It was Veronica who was watching at home before running over to pick her up.
Um.
While Simon and his wife are away, Veronica came specially from Australia and has been helping to take care of the children at Dume Point Manor for the past two months.
Sofia also came to stay for a few days.
Because it's Saturday, everyone is at home.
Melbourne still relies on Veronica.
Seattle still has a very cold appearance, holding a large encyclopedia that is completely inappropriate for her age.
Little Nick still has a tendency to use his little white teeth on everything.
The last pair of twins still remembered their father, and even took the initiative to call someone when they were picked up by Simon. As expected, their IQ seemed to be slightly higher than that of their two brothers, but not as good as their second sister, which was good.
He happily spent the whole afternoon with his family, opening gifts with the children, talking to Jennifer about recent trivial matters, and inspecting his eldest son's recent homework in a decent manner, and having a lively dinner together in the evening.
It wasn't until girl A came over at eight o'clock in the evening to ask if she wanted to go to a certain cocktail party that she remembered.
I barely made it to Century City.
After all, this cocktail party is dealing with the investors behind the packaging plan that Simon personally designed for overseas film capital after the box office failure of "Cutthroat Island". As the helmsman, he always has to show his confidence.
Among the five projects, "Alien 2" has started filming and is expected to be released on Easter next year. Roland Emmerich's "Days Alone" is the highlight of next summer's release, followed by Robert Zemeckis's "Contact" scheduled for the end of next year.
These are three of the first five films in the package.
According to the project plan, the remaining two films will be selected for project approval next year and released in 1998.
But it is basically certain that they are all bombshells.
The entire plan will also be the focus of MGM's business in the next few years in addition to the Agents movie universe. As long as it proceeds smoothly, MGM can basically completely restore the vitality that was exhausted in the 1980s, and even achieve the goal of controlling Disney, Sony and other companies. Go ahead.