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Chapter 234 Reality Show, Nuclear War, "Survivor"

Catherine took a sip of water and then began to think.

But there is no need to mess around at this time.

After all, the other party only released this product, not that it has been officially launched.

Catherine decided to wait and see what happens.

The other party's products will not be launched until early next year, which means that I still have a lot of time.

But when it comes to dealing with IBM, Catherine feels that the two sides may be able to reach a compromise.

In order to find out the news, Catherine decided to ask Olson to talk to the other party, and maybe it would work if he could get a hint.

Of course, Catherine's company is not idle either. Although there is no shortage of funds for the development of the ternary computer, there are still big problems if there is no clue.

However, the research on this product was just an interest of Catherine, so she didn't pay too much attention to it - of course, she couldn't let these people do nothing.

The research on new optical drives is also in full swing.

Because Pip-Boy 1016 has funding from the Pentagon, it can be researched without any scruples and progresses very quickly. If there are no accidents, a complete product will be developed within the year.

"Kate, your package was sent from Hong Kong. It is a CD of the first ten episodes of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"."

Elsa suddenly walked in with a package.

"Yeah?"

Catherine was very happy to hear the news.

She took the animated version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and put it into the VCD, then turned on the TV set, and Catherine started to watch it.

There are four dubbing versions of the film, namely Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and English.

To be honest...Catherine has no intention of introducing this cartoon to the United States. After all, she is not optimistic about the ratings of this film.

This is exactly what Catherine requested to make for fun and fun. Compared with the ternary computer, it is even more of a toy or money-burning character.

This version is in English, so Elsa can understand it... But when Catherine heard it, she immediately changed the disc and replaced it with the Mandarin version.

The answer is simple - the dubbing of the English version is Japanese...

In any case, the animation of the first ten episodes is still good, the characters are beautiful, and the plot is basically restored to the original... Of course, the plot of the first ten episodes just happens to talk about Yang Guo meeting Xiao Longnu and entering the ancient tomb.

The image of Little Dragon Girl was designed by Catherine herself. Catherine gave Jin Yong her own "review" for this character for a long time to ensure that the character could achieve the perfection she required.

"Not bad."

Catherine watched the video with peace of mind, but she also knew that making cartoons could not be her key industry.

After all, if the ternary computer is really developed, I might be able to defeat General I. And even if "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is popular, it will only be in terms of ratings at most. Although my own TV station can also

You can make a lot of money, but you have so many movies in your mind, why do you care?

This is just a ticket.

Thinking of this, Catherine thought of the ternary computer again.

In a sense, the ternary computer is the most suitable device to serve as a large computer, because the ternary computer has the ability to think logically, is smaller, and has more stable performance - this has changed from the Soviet Union's ternary computer in the past few years.

This can be seen from the popularity of computers after they were developed.

Of course, due to serious bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, the product could only be discontinued instead of continuing research, so the ternary computer disappeared from the trend of history.

But now Catherine has picked up the research on the Soviet Union and started continued research.

Catherine felt that it was a pity that she could not go to the Soviet Union to recruit workers. Otherwise, it would be interesting to attract all those researchers.

If this doesn't work, then I can only settle for the next best thing - start from scratch.

If Catherine's character breaks out now and she develops a ternary computer, she won't have to pay attention to IBM or anything like that - of course, the premise is that the performance of the machine is good enough.

But Catherine didn't have much confidence in this. After all, historically, this product had failed in the end, and she wasn't sure how far she could go.

After watching the film, Catherine thought of "The X-Files" again.

"Have the X-Files finished broadcasting in the past two days?" Catherine suddenly asked.

"Oh, wait a minute."

Elsa seemed to have thought of something, and then brought over a report from Angel Beat-Entertainment TV Station.

"The average viewership rating is 30%, with a maximum of 53.6%..."

Very good, very good, Catherine is very satisfied.

There were very few TV programs at this time, so it was not surprising that her product could achieve such high ratings, and Catherine was very satisfied.

"Elsa, why is this data in 'Noah'?"

"Because this is a script you wrote, I paid special attention to it." Elsa replied.

"Oh? That's great. Maybe I should give you some special rewards?"

Catherine had a smirk on her face, and Elsa started to turn red - obviously, she knew what Catherine's "reward" was.

Seeing how popular "The X-Files" was, Catherine suddenly had a new idea.

"That's it - "Reality Show"."

Yes, Catherine is launching such a program.

"Reality show?" Lucas was a little surprised.

"Live?" Spielberg asked.

——Lucas and Spielberg are both in Los Angeles now, very close to the headquarters, so Catherine simply asked the two of them to come to 'Noah'.

As soon as they arrived, Catherine expressed her thoughts.

"No, neither."

Catherine felt that she needed to make it clear to them.

"What do you think people think about the form of the world now?"

"Cold War?" Lucas hesitated, "...nuclear war?"

Catherine nodded, with a "cowardly" look, "Yes, it is nuclear war. Now the world is divided into two poles. The Third World War may break out at any time. At this time, what people are most afraid of is undoubtedly

It’s a nuclear war.”

"We're going to make a movie about 'nuclear war'?" Spielberg asked.

"I suddenly thought of "Dr. Strangelove"..." Elsa suddenly interrupted, and then shrugged.

"No, neither."

Catherine said inscrutably.

"As civilians who know that a nuclear war is about to break out, 'we' want to know how to survive after a world war."

Lucas and Spielberg nodded in understanding.

"Then, this is the essence of our film. We don't need actors, we just need some volunteers, and then ask them to come and record the show, that's it."

"No actors? Only volunteers?" Lucas was a little surprised.

"Yes, there are no actors. We only use volunteers. Our program does not require actors at all. What we need is to recruit some people across the country who are worried about nuclear war, and then simulate a situation after a nuclear war. We

To see how they survived in such a situation, this is a 'reality show', what we need is not an actor, but a survivor after a nuclear war."

"I understand." Spielberg said, "That is to say, the program we need to record is not acting, but to simulate a real environment after a nuclear war, and then we let some volunteers enter the program,

Let them survive and then we film their daily lives?"

Catherine nodded: "Yes, that's it."

"Not just nuclear war, maybe we can apply it to other places, such as...Night of the Living Dead? Or...the ocean submerged the earth?" Spielberg continued to think divergently.

"Of course there is no problem, but that's the second season." Catherine laughed.

Americans are somewhat "innocent" and "cute" - except for a few, of course.

Of course, this is also determined by the nature of society.

After all, the United States is the world's superpower. Most of the citizens here have extremely rich material lives, and a small number of people also receive state assistance. How can it be like the saying on the other side that "the people in the west are eating grass, and the people in the east are adding paint"

"s country?

Precisely because the United States is materially rich and abundant—even a small number of people can at least meet their basic living needs—so it is necessary for them to be able to enrich their spiritual lives.

There is an old saying: This is what the full and warm thoughts are about.

Therefore, when Americans play games, they often involve themselves.

Give a typical example.

In Catherine's original world, there is a very famous game "World of Warcraft". The servers of World of Warcraft are divided into two types: "pvp" and "pve".

The so-called "pvp" is the English abbreviation of player-vs-player, which means player versus player, that is, an interactive competition formed by one player attacking another player.

And "pve" is the abbreviation of player-vs-envirent, that is, player vs environment.

In the PVE server of "World of Warcraft", there are naming standards, and there are requirements for speaking. You can't have a spoof name like "I love a firewood", but you have to be serious.

But in the eyes of Chinese players, such rules eventually became useless, and GM couldn't control them at all. In the end, pve became pvp.

In China, the most popular thing is "pvp", which means Chinese people prefer to fight with real people. However, pve servers are often sparse. In China, the online game "pk" is also a very important selling point.

The more famous ones are online games like "Dragon Babu".

For Europeans and Americans, "pve" servers are equally popular.

This is because people in the United States who need spiritual satisfaction prefer to enter another world, a free and fantasy world.

People are keen on playing a being, or a ranger, or a warrior, instead of controlling the characters in the game to fight against real people.

Catherine's reality show is based on this.

If a program like this were placed in China, it would probably end up being a laugh track.

In fact, this kind of program has appeared in the history of the United States, and it was once very popular - and that was after the Cold War.

Moreover, those volunteers were conscientious and conscientious. In order to preserve water, they even stored urine for emergencies. However, after being "rescued", these volunteers were even dehydrated to varying degrees and even fell ill.

Because of this, Catherine is looking forward to this show so much.

"Hmm...change the name. "Survivor" seems good?"

Catherine thought.

Survivor, this name is indeed very interesting.

Such a "movie" doesn't even need a script, it just needs a setting for the world.

"For a gimmick... Oh, no, in order to make the show more realistic, we can also find some experts to specifically formulate the environment and climate after a nuclear war."

Catherine suddenly thought of this again.

The more authentic you are, the easier it is to be popular...

"Where is the best place to shoot?" Spielberg asked.

"It just so happens that "Fallout" has been filmed. Maybe we can use the set there."

Indeed, due to Catherine's request, all the buildings on the set are real buildings built by Catherine in order to strive for authenticity - of course, only in appearance.

However, this is enough, just make some small modifications and it will be done.

"Maybe we have to move it to the desert." Catherine suddenly said: "In this case, it will be more conducive to 'reality'."

Catherine felt that it might be better if it could be filmed through a hidden camera instead of a camera, because without the crew, the scene would be more realistic.

"Hey, it would be great if the crew could be invisible." Catherine sighed.

"This is unlikely, but I think if it is volunteers, they may not care about this. What they need is a feeling." Spielberg said.

At this time, Lucas suddenly thought of something: "Maybe we can recruit another group of volunteers for comparison?"

This is a good idea.

"By the way, we can also do this -" Catherine added: "We can also let other people dress up as bandits, robbers and the like. You know, after a nuclear war, all resources will be in shortage, and

At this time, some people will inevitably become bandits, and we can create some obstacles for our survivors."

Between the two parties, you and I basically set up the program of "Survivor".

First, recruit two groups of volunteers, each group of 5 to 10 people, and then survive for a month after a nuclear war. Finally, "heroic federal soldiers" will come to save them.

And within this month, they need to face the lack of food resources, water shortages, the threat of nuclear radiation and the dangers from humans themselves.

The filming location was arranged in New Mexico, because "Fallout" has been completely filmed, so this aspect is completely feasible.

Of course, Catherine's hidden filming plan wasn't feasible - at least not for the time being.

After all, the other party has to go out to find food sources, ask for help, and build temporary shelters... these all require these people to do it personally, and the camera must follow the other party all the way, so such a plan can only be shelved.

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The plot is set after the city has just been attacked by a nuclear missile. The whole world has become a ruin, wired communications are completely damaged, and electronic products have almost become unusable...

Originally, Spielberg was planning to set up one or two kinds of mutant monsters, but considering that the background of "Survivor" was that it had just been attacked by a nuclear missile, this plan had to be shelved.

In fact, Catherine also thinks this plan is good. If the world is delayed a little longer...for example, twenty years later, the survivors come out of the shelter...then maybe her plan will become very feasible.

Of course, we can make a sequel

"Then we will shoot this in the second season?" Spielberg was still a little reluctant to give up.

Unexpectedly, Catherine shook her head: "The audience will be tired of the aesthetics, so this won't work."

"As for season 2, can we shoot a...water world? A future water world seems good?"

Catherine's thinking began to diverge: "Can we imagine a future world, for example, the glaciers at the poles melt, and then the cities are submerged, and people have no choice but to start living on the plateau or on the sea?"

"Yes." She took a big tui: "For the second season, we can definitely shoot a "Water World", and then for the third season... "Night of the Living Dead" might be good?"

It's just a pity that now is not the time to shoot "Resident Evil", otherwise it would be better - but "Night of the Living Dead" has only been released not long ago. At this time, zombie-themed movies are emerging one after another, and Catherine has no intention of going to this time.

water.

However, the current zombie series are all fantasy films, not science fiction, and Catherine has no regard for such films.

As for "Resident Evil", Catherine decided to wait until the game appeared before releasing it.

"Then, when the fourth season comes, "Survivor 2" will be available. Isn't that good?"

Catherine's thoughts made both Lucas and Spielberg wipe their sweat silently.

The show hasn't started filming yet, but the big boss's divergent thinking has reached this level... Isn't this too strong?

As if she didn't notice the two of them at all, Catherine continued to think, or talk to herself.

"In the second season, we may be able to shoot a movie for this...such as "Future Water World" or something...Well, it seems good, maybe we will shoot this movie next year?"

The more Catherine thought about it, the more feasible it became.

"Okay, let's do this. Next, we are going to - hype... Oh, no, we are going to select two groups of volunteers across the country, and then let everyone know about our program."

Catherine starts playing with tickets again...