I'm almost a Muggle

"Is there a ten-year gap?" Lin Dong pretended to be surprised.

"Some core things are still not good here, and there is no way to make up for the gap in concepts with technology."

"There's a gap of ten years, why don't you hurry up and catch up."

"Well……"

"Or can you shorten the gap of ten years in base?"

Suddenly I don't know how to answer.

Hu Hailang is also very innocent.

Although he occasionally makes impassioned attempts to save China's special effects industry, these are all just bragging.

It's like some people want to save the universe.

Some people want to save the lost girl.

Some people want to go back to their hometown.

They are all things that you fantasize about in your mind and get excited about with your mouth.

In fact, it is impossible for you to save the universe. The most you can do is save the lost girl.

"Boss, I'm just making a living. I want to save some money to marry the village king's widow." Hu Hailang couldn't figure out when the responsibility of saving China's special effects industry fell on his shoulders.

Can he refuse?

"There is no conflict. After you save China's special effects industry, will Widow Wang in your village still dislike you?"

Lin Dong asked seriously.

Hu Hailang also thought about it seriously and found that that was really the case.

“How to save China’s special effects industry?”

If Lin Dong hadn't been Kleist's boss, and the two of them were squatting next to a pile of foam lunch boxes talking about this kind of topic, the scene would have been ridiculous.

"Let's set up a special effects company ourselves, which will be an independent special effects company in our country." Lin Dong continued to lie.

Is not this nonsensical?

Hu Hailang waited for Lin Dong, an amateur, to continue talking nonsense.

"Then we recruit people from top-notch special effects teams abroad, such as Digital Domain. Do you know who the big guys are in the industry best?"

Lin Dong is really not talking nonsense.

He has been thinking about this for a long time.

He is an outsider.

But I have never been out of tune with this world.

Maybe, but it was all in the first days. He always missed his hometown crazily and thought it was a prank to throw him here.

However, as time goes by.

He still misses his hometown, but he has adapted and fallen in love with the food, interesting acting jobs, and even Chinese humanistic values.

Moreover, he also developed a deep relationship with the original owner's parents.

The two old men would call him regularly to inquire about his welfare and urge him to find a woman to get married as soon as possible. He would also call occasionally and fly over to his hometown to stay for a few days every year.

He hopes that China's film industry can develop healthily and vigorously.

If this improvement in development is because of him, then he will be even happier.

Film special effects will completely change the structure of the film manufacturing market in the coming years. If Chinese films want to catch up with Hollywood, special effects are an inevitable thing.

"If you are really rich, why not acquire Digital Domain? Now that it has been resold to Xiangjiang, the people who bought it must want to resell it."

Hu Hailang tried his best to not be so petty and to keep up with Lin Dong's thinking.

Scott Ross, the former general manager of Industrial Light and Magic, collaborated with director James Cameron and film special effects master Stan Winston to create the special effects company Digital Domain.

He has contributed to many masterpieces such as "Titanic" and the "Transformers" trilogy, and has won Oscar recognition 7 times.

The market value once reached US$400 million.

However, a company in Hong Kong bought it home last year for less than HK$400 million.

Shrunk nearly ten times!

"If we acquire them, they will still be Digital Domain, an American company. It will take too much effort to twist them over."

And the acquisition cost was too little.

After doing some research, Lin Dong discovered that acquiring a special effects company was very simple, and a lot of special effects companies were on sale.

You can't buy it and suffer losses, you can't buy it and you can't be fooled.

Wanting to make some contribution to Chinese films does not mean that he has forgotten the original intention of losing money.

Therefore, he does not plan to acquire any team as a whole.

Hu Hailang thought for a while and agreed with Lin Dong's view.

These teams, which have been formed for many years, have their own unique values ​​and are always ready to use this set of values ​​to compete with capital.

It is precisely because of their unity and exclusiveness that it is very difficult to learn core technologies and concepts from them, which is not in line with Lin Dong's purpose of building a special effects team.

Therefore, only dig out individual elites and place them in the center of a new and unfamiliar team.

This is in the interest of Lin Dong and the Chinese team.

Lin Dong and Hu Hailang quickly reached an agreement in this regard.

Hu Hailang has been in this industry for such a long time, and there is nothing wrong with his peers to compare themselves to each other. It is impossible that no one realizes this.

"We also need to solve the problem of profitability. The reason why special effects companies have a difficult living environment is because there is a problem with the business operation model."

Hu Hailang talked eloquently, thinking that his knowledge in this area would be appreciated by Lin Dong.

I'm not an incompetent person either.

Little did he know that Lin Dong had no interest in this at all. He just asked, "What do you think the problem is and how to solve it?"

"We starve to do all the work, but they make billions of dollars." Hu Hailang clenched his fists. "This industry must unite to stop this kind of thing."

"Then do you think they can unite?" Lin Dong asked with a smile.

Then Hu Hailang was speechless.

At that time, James and Bridget set a total budget for "Titanic" in the range of 100 million U.S. dollars, and the visual effects budget was 18 million U.S. dollars.

However, when Digital Domain studied the project, they found that 18 million was far from enough. To achieve the effect James Cameron wanted, at least 27 million was needed.

At that time, Digital Domain's biggest competitor was Industrial Light & Magic.

The heads of Industrial Light and Magic believe that "if I collaborate with James Cameron on a movie, but he cannot afford to hire his own company to do visual effects, then I can give Digital Domain a fatal blow."

With this idea in mind, Industrial Light and Magic expressed its willingness to accept a budget of 18 million.

In other words, I would rather lose myself to death than lure my opponent.

Join forces?

nonexistent.

The idea of ​​careerists is to first become the industry leader, then integrate the industry and speak for the industry themselves.

Because everyone thinks so, so...

"I'm sorry, I'm too ambitious."

Hu Hailang was hit by Lin Dong. It was one thing to know, but it was another thing to know how to solve it.

"It doesn't matter, we can take our time. The first thing is to get the team together. You can help me research first. Which big-shot special effects characters want a high-paying Chinese job now, and they are not too old-fashioned.

They want to hide the technology."

Lin Dong formally extended an olive branch like the young man he had convinced...