Chapter 1158 Another Wing

Silicon Valley will be the holy place in the hearts of global technology enthusiasts, people who want to become famous overnight, and people who want to make a fortune in the next 40 years.

Countless technology companies have emerged here.

Intel, Cisco, Yahoo, Apple, Google, Must Die...etc. all come from here.

Therefore, it is also known as the place at the forefront of science and technology, the place that most inspires people to invent and create.

But in fact, people's understanding of it is still very different.

At least in its heyday, of the more than 10,000 companies, only 60% were technological innovation companies, and the remaining 40% were companies that provided various services, such as small studios specializing in developing supporting software, Small companies that provide after-sales services, information consulting and provision, financial support and angel investment, etc.

Of course, the companies living in Silicon Valley are not as good as people think. Every company makes a lot of money, like Google, Must Die, etc.

In fact, if you don’t come to Silicon Valley for five years, you will definitely not find 500 companies that you are familiar with in Silicon Valley. This is true whether it is a technological innovation company or an supporting service company.

The chances of a new generation here are really crazy.

New companies are born every day, and old companies close every day. ——Not one or two families, but dozens of them!

As a well-known angel investment CEO said, “We have seen too many companies in Silicon Valley over the years. Many companies are excellent in their creative and initial stages, even Facebook and Google, but in the end they all failed. Didn’t survive. Silicon Valley is both the birthplace of dreams and the burial place of dreams!”

Yin Jun never thought about being an investment genius in Silicon Valley. He was not interested in this.

The assets in Xiangjiang are enough for him to use for a lifetime. Now he only thinks about how to make his film and entertainment business better and catch up with Hollywood as soon as possible, or even surpass them.

In fact, in the 1980s, the gap between Hollywood and Hong Kong was really not that big.

Even the space opera "Star Wars" that the Americans boast about is more like a toy movie with inferior special effects. In addition to leaving a sacred place in the hearts of Americans, it still caused little sensation overseas. big.

Later, it was only because of the continuous development of special effects that the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy was more like a separate story, so the old plot was picked up again and the "Star Wars" series was revitalized. In the end, Lu Cass successfully cashed out billions of dollars and sold it to Disney. It was a really good business!

I feel a little jealous when I think about it.

I'm not bragging. Lucas has only had such a movie IP for his whole life, and it has also made tens of billions of dollars. It is really a miracle in the history of film!

Although in the previous life, Xiangjiang also produced a film called "Star Wars" that imitated "Star Wars", which was a bit ruinous. However, this was a filmmaker who represented Xiangjiang in the 1980s. In fact, he still wanted to do more. Various.

The same is true for Golden Harvest. In the 1980s, with the continuous production of high-quality products, coupled with the many talents of the New Art City, the ability to conquer Asia and compete with Hollywood from the 1980s to the early 1990s is indeed not just a boast.

When was it that Hong Kong movies were suddenly pushed down a notch by Hollywood, and then further and further away?

Don't talk about plagiarized plots and lack of innovation. Hollywood is actually the same way. It repeats the same thing over and over again. Let's not call it the boss.

Even in terms of storyline, they are not as good as Xiangjiang.

The first time a Hollywood movie truly defeated Hong Kong movies was in 1993.

That year, Xiangjiang Film was at its peak.

Ranking first at the box office that year was "Tang Bo Hu Spots the Fragrance of Autumn" by Xing Ye and Gong Huang, which people will never forget 30 years later.

Then there is "Happy Events in the Flower Field" which is the pinnacle of Huang Baiming's comedy.

There are also Cheng Long's "City Hunter" and "Crime Squad".

There are also Jet Li's "Fang Shiyu" and "Once Upon a Time in the Lion King".

There was also "East and West", which saved the life of the Sunglasses King, which was also broadcast this year.

There are even some movies that are not too well-known but are very good to watch, such as "Psycho Knife and the Flying Cat", "The Genuine Wei Xiaobao: Picking Up Girls on Purpose", "The Invincibles of the East: The Rise of the Wind", "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", "Heaven Slaying the Dragon" "The Demon Cult Leader"...wait for it, it was also released this year.

But even so many wonderful Hong Kong movies were directly crushed to pieces by the big dinosaur-"Jurassic Park".

Hong Kong's local box office champion "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" is about 40.17 million.

The box office of "Jurassic Park" is as high as more than 61.8 million!

That’s more than 20 million yuan!

This record was not broken until 14 years later by "Titanic".

And so far, no Hong Kong movie has reached this figure.

The best-performing film was "Kung Fu" in 2004, but its box office was around HK$61.28 million, still missing by hundreds of thousands.

This is without converting price levels.

This shows how much "Jurassic Park" crushed Hong Kong movies.

But the most important thing is not that it has crushed so many classics in Hong Kong.

The most terrible thing is that these dinosaurs crushed them from Hong Kong to Japan, and then from Japan to South Korea, and then to the Philippines, Malaysia... and the entire Asian box office fell.

Since then, Xiangjiang's foreign cities have been gradually occupied by Hollywood movies and gradually squeezed out, never regaining its former glory.

After losing the market in other places, Hong Kong's local film market alone cannot support so many film crews!

So Xiangjiang Film itself collapsed. Some people retired, some went to Hollywood, and the rest... lingered on, and this will remain the case until 2020.

"Jurassic Park" is also of great significance to Hollywood.

It suddenly made Hollywood understand what kind of movies the audience needs, what kind of movies the audience likes, and what kind of movies can arouse the love of global audiences.

Since "Jurassic Park", Hollywood has attached great importance to various special effects technologies and various computer technologies. It has launched many special effects movies one after another, and finally got a collection of super comic hero movies, thus officially dominating the world. In the film market, no film from any country can compete with them.

A super movie like "Wolf Warrior 2" that combines the right time, place and people is just an accident in China. In ten or eight years, don't think about having such a super box office miracle again.

Hollywood’s decades of market cultivation and cultivation, coupled with the U.S. cultural export policy, and the fact that the U.S. represents the most advanced and powerful country in the world, are destined to be beyond the reach of other countries.

Even if China wants to catch up, without twenty or thirty years of hard work, you don’t even want to talk about it.

After all, this is a problem for the entire film industry. Not only film companies, but also special effects companies, distribution and promotion companies, and even large companies in the United States. Thanks to everyone's efforts, Hollywood has achieved global dominance. Appear!

Back to Jurassic Park.

In fact, many people don't know that the special effects production of "Jurassic Park" is not at all the computer software production, green screen production, action point capture dynamic simulation, etc. that we think of in later generations, but uses relatively simple techniques. Made by means.

After all, at that time, WIN95 had not yet come out.

The first "Jurassic Park" relied on Stan Winston's digital domain to make a large number of dinosaur models, large and small, to the point where they looked fake and real.

Another trump card is that they found a company called Silicon Graphics, which has a graphics workstation technology that is similar to the current animation workbench of Osamu Tezuka in Japan, but is more sophisticated and has powerful geometric and physical calculations. Ability and acceleration capabilities to dynamically change images.

To put it more bluntly, this is a super enhanced version of Japan’s second-rate cartoons.

That's why the dinosaurs we saw in "Jurassic Park" are so lifelike and run so naturally.

"Jurassic Park" exploded with such power under the direction of Spielberg, and the behind-the-scenes efforts of the two mentioned above are definitely a crucial part.

Now the digital realm is in Yin Jun’s hands.

If Yin Jun wants to make "Jurassic Park" and regard it as one of Kirin Film's masterpieces, then he will definitely need the cooperation of Silicon Graphics.

As it happens, Silicon Graphics was founded just this year, just two weeks ago.

Yin Jun has been asking people to pay attention to it. When it is registered and established, there will naturally be public information, which will also make it easier for Yin Jun to find people.

So Yin Jun took advantage of the time now to try to get this company done.

Cooperation is certain. If there is an opportunity, Yin Jun hopes to inject capital into Silicon Graphics and become its shareholder, preferably the largest shareholder.

As a well-known special effects production company in the United States, Silicon Graphics will develop rapidly in a few years, and it will become even more impressive in the future.

On the one hand, it does its own special effects, and on the other hand, it also sells its own SGI workstation - which is equivalent to the animation workbench sold in Japan.

They are famous for the movies they made themselves and using the SGI workbench.

"Avatar", "Titanic", "Lord of the Rings", "Jurassic Park", "The Day After Tomorrow", etc., all must be produced with their technology in order to have such a good presentation effect and trigger Such a big sensation.

As long as he saw these names, Yin Jun felt that it would be a huge waste not to recruit this company into the Qilin Culture sequence.

With the digital field and Silicon Graphics, Microsoft can cultivate a series of software companies... Is there any better configuration for Yin Jun's film and entertainment empire?

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