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Chapter 701 The Chinese Chef of DreamWorks!
After sending Rick away, Li Zhifan and Silver went back to Los Angeles together.

On the way, he asked Silver: "What do all of you at DreamWorks think about the acquisition?"

"Oh!" Silver said with a smile, "Of course everyone is very happy, because with the support of the consortium, we can concentrate more on creating."

Li Zhifan shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not true, right? And it's not the answer I want to hear."

Silvo was embarrassed, and blinked his eyes to test Li Zhifan's reaction: "Mr. Li, you must have heard some rumors, right? We are very supportive of the takeover case, and it was voted by all members back then."

DreamWorks was originally just a studio, and later established a joint-stock company, and all employees hold shares.

With the continuous growth and expansion later, some of the shareholders of the year withdrew, and some are still there, but the shares are monopolized, but the number of shareholders is still quite large.

Dongfang Group is a wholly-owned acquisition this time. In addition, it has signed agreements with important shareholders in DreamWorks. Some are not allowed to leave for eight years, some are not allowed to be five years, and the minimum is two years.

On this basis, they respectively obtained a share transfer price at a premium to the market value.

There are also some who did not agree to be acquired at the beginning, and did not sign any premium agreement later, and left DreamWorks as early as the first time after the acquisition was completed.

So Li Zhifan's visit this time actually didn't arouse too much disgust. On the contrary, these people were expecting that Li Zhifan or Dongfang Group could bring new projects with oriental characteristics and enter the Chinese market.

"It's okay, you can rest assured!"

Li Zhifan said with a smile, "I know that DreamWorks has always been a very independent animation production company, but what do you think about the fact that external forces are involved in the work?"

Silwo immediately understood what Li Zhifan meant. It seemed that he was talking about being acquired, but in fact he wanted to talk about what kind of reaction Li Zhifan would cause when he participated in it, so Silwo explained in detail: "DreamWorks is divided into teams. , each director leads a team. Some directors themselves are one of the directors of the company and concurrently serve as vice presidents, while others are assistants to the directors as vice presidents. Currently, there are 14 animation directors in DreamWorks, of which There are 5 post-directors, that is, five post-production teams, and each team the directors are in charge of is more like a studio, independent of each other, but they can cooperate with each other."

"Oh!"

Li Zhifan then asked, "Which director has the highest production level? I mean pre-production!"

"Of course every director is very good."

Silver's very professional and unbiased introduction, "However, in terms of awards, Director Angkers has won the most Oscars, having won three Oscars for Best Animated Feature, followed by Director Matthew Bratt, who has won two Oscars. Golden Globes."

"What is their schedule this year?" Li Zhifan continued to ask.

"Onkos's team has a feature-length animation in production, while Matthew's team has just finished their vacation, and they should not have launched a new work plan."

Silver suggested, "If you want to make a feature-length animated film, you can have a good chat with Matthew. Although he is very young, he is very talented. He is one of the few directors among us who does independent creative animation."

"Okay! Then you can introduce me later!"

In fact, Li Zhifan already has a general understanding of DreamWorks, that is, how many directors there are, how many animated feature films he has produced, and how many awards he has won, but he is not very familiar with each director.

He has already read the information about this Matthew, but as for his character and whether he gets along well, he doesn't know.

Los Angeles.

Dream Factory is not far from the community where Li Zhifan lives, about three blocks.

However, compared to Li Zhifan's residence, the location of DreamWorks has already reached the suburbs.

As an animation production company, it is actually the most reasonable arrangement to settle in the suburbs instead of the city center. In a quiet atmosphere, you can create with peace of mind without being affected by the disturbances of the commercial area.

DreamWorks is a creative park as a whole, just like a factory area. It is all low-rise buildings, and the highest is only three floors.

Silver first brought Li Zhifan to his office. From this position, he could see the whole park.

"That's where Matthew's director team works. It's an independent building. The characteristic of their team is that they not only have an excellent pre-production team, but also an excellent post-production team, with high autonomy."

Silver pointed to the two rows of new buildings behind them again, "That's where the Angkers director team is, the one on the left is their apartment, the one on the right is the studio, and behind it is the post-production studio of director Weil. Director Weir has a close cooperative relationship with Angkers, and generally the animation works directed by Angkers are completed by the team directed by Weir."

After introducing them one by one, Li Zhifan got a general overview of the entire park.

In short, the best buildings are for big-name director teams, and the other less grand buildings are the studios of newcomer production teams.

Because DreamWorks was acquired by Dongfang Group, it merged into many other animation studios that were acquired at the same time, so the area of ​​the park is now about double that of before the acquisition. Among them, the most powerful merger is a The team called Gale Post Studio.

This team is not only good at making animated feature films, but also better at special effects for movies, and has independently developed a lot of software and equipment specially used for making movies, with a lot of patents.

Last year, the founder and director of Gail Studios died suddenly one night, which caused Gail Studios to suspend temporarily. The successor was the wife of the original director, but she didn't know anything about film production. The price was sold to Dongfang Group. The person in charge of Gale Studio is the deputy of the original person in charge. After taking over the banner, he can only provide some post-production technical support for DreamWorks, and the form is much weaker than before.

"Gather all the directors together! Let's have a meeting!"

Li Zhifan said, "Everyone who can come, and all the vice president levels, are also present."

"Okay, please wait a moment!"

Silver said, looking at his watch, "It's almost noon now, why don't we have a meeting after dinner?"

"Row!"

Li Zhifan thought about it for a while, and said, "Well, the meeting will be held at two o'clock in the afternoon, and you should send a notice in advance."

"Okay!" Silver raised his coffee cup, took a sip, and said, "This place is too remote, and it takes more than an hour to go back and forth to the city center, or we can eat in the canteen of the park! There are delicious Chinese dishes there. "

"tasty?"

Li Zhifan squinted his eyes and smiled, it seems that Chinese chefs have been arranged in the park.

The cafeteria was not far from Silver's office, but he still drove Li Zhifan there.

Compared with those slightly larger companies in China, the president of Silver has no privileges at all in terms of treatment, and he doesn't even have a dedicated president's cafeteria, which is called an independent box.

And he didn't even bring his assistant, so he and Li Zhifan took the dinner plate and lined up for dinner.

Compared with Li Zhifan's treatment in Timeline, it's a world of difference.

"Hello! Silver!"

"Hi Scar!"

"..."

During the queuing process, many employees greeted him one after another, and some even directly called him "Ska" for short, but everyone didn't say hello to Li Zhifan, an Asian face, and they all thought he was a person from the Eastern Group for inspection.

Most of the employees eat Western-style fast food, and there are only a few people who eat Chinese food.

Li Zhifan was very curious: "Why, don't the Chinese chefs in your cafeteria cook delicious food? Why are there so few people here?"

"Oh, I think everyone prefers fries to burgers!"

Silver shrugged and said, "After all, everyone is very busy, and some people left after eating."

Li Zhifan looked around and found that many people took burgers and drinks and left, but most of them chose to sit down and eat.

Moreover, the hamburgers in this cafeteria are completely different from the foreign junk fast food we have seen in China. They are in the shape of a Big Mac, and the ingredients inside are also very rich.

After queuing for less than a minute, it was finally Li Zhifan and Silver's turn.

"Li, what do you want to eat!"

Silwo actually introduced it to Li Zhifan, "These two dishes are more delicious, one is fish-flavored shredded pork, and the other is tomato beef brisket."

"Uh, haha, good! Then these two will be fine!"

Li Zhifan couldn't help laughing, do you need to introduce this Chinese dish to me?
However, the appearance of these two dishes is much worse, not as good as the dishes in small domestic restaurants.

Different from the Western-style fast food window, the Chinese food side is self-service, just like the drink port, you can make what you want by yourself.

Li Zhifan scooped up some fish-flavored shredded pork and tomato sirloin with a spoon, and some rice, and waited for Silver to find a place together after beating.

But he only took one bite of this dish, and he was speechless.

Mild and slightly sweet, the spicy taste of fish-flavored shredded pork is completely absent.

"How much is your chef hired?"

Li Zhifan couldn't help but ask Silver.

"do not know!"

Seeing Li Zhifan's expression, Silver knew that he probably found it unpalatable, so he said helplessly, "This chef himself said that he has worked in Chinese restaurants in the United States for more than 20 years, but most of the employees are not used to it. We thought it was Chinese food. Because of this, but looking at your expression now, I guess...maybe it’s not what we originally thought?”

"20 years..."

Li Zhifan was speechless, "This technique lasts at most two months!"

Silver immediately beckoned and called the manager of the restaurant to come over, pointing to Li Zhifan and the plate in front of him and said, "This Chinese chef is not good enough, please change to another one."

"Wait a moment!"

Li Zhifan shouted, "Let me meet him! There is no need to change directly."

"well!"

The manager nodded immediately and went back to the back kitchen.

Not long after, a middle-aged Chinese man wearing an American chef's uniform walked over.

After seeing Li Zhifan, his expression was stunned, and he said in Chinese, "Li Zhifan? You, you, wow! I actually saw you here."

"hehe Hello!"

Li Zhifan pointed to the empty seat next to him, "Sit down! Is the accent from Zhili?"

"Yes! It's from International Village!" the chef said happily.

"They're all fellow villagers!"

Li Zhifan smiled, "What's your name, Master?"

"My surname is Ma, Ma Tengyun! That Tengyun rides the fog!"

"Oh, Master Ma!"

Li Zhifan pointed to the dish, "You cooked all of this?"

"Hey, I know what you think!"

Ma Tengyun scratched his head, "It doesn't suit your taste, right? Hey, I can't help it. I used to make roast duck in a Chinese restaurant. I just started making this big pot dish and it's still under control. But I'm best at making roast duck. For more than 20 years, although it took a lot of work, I made it very delicious."

"Then why don't you sell roast duck?" Li Zhifan was surprised.

"I did it before!"

Ma Tengyun said helplessly, "It's a pity that eating roast duck is also a time-consuming technical task. Their employees here don't have time to sit down and eat slowly. You know, there are burritos for roast duck, shredded green onions, shredded cucumbers, and miso , it’s delicious.”

Silver also said: "Master Ma's roast duck is really good. I also ate it when I first started cooking it, but we can only share one piece among several of us, but once a week or a month is fine, not every day." eat."

"It can be improved!"

Li Zhifan said directly, "Roasted duck meat wrapped in a big pancake, with some cucumber shreds, pineapple shreds, lettuce and so on, wouldn't it be enough to just sell this one?"

"Uh, this..."

Silver, Ma Tengyun and the manager of the restaurant looked at each other, neither of them thought about this question.

Ma Tengyun is actually not familiar with Chinese-style fast food and big pot rice. The chef also divides his work. He can be said to have changed his work temporarily. At the beginning, he was able to apply for this position only because of his superb knife skills and a coveted dog. roast duck.

"Go, go to your back kitchen to have a look!"

Li Zhifan stood up and dragged Ma Tengyun to the back kitchen.

Silver and the restaurant manager also got up quickly and followed behind.

It was natural for Ma Tengyun to feel that the arrival of Li Zhifan, a Chinese, was like a relative at home, and he brought Li Zhifan into the back kitchen without any scruples.

His workshop is only a dozen square meters in size, and there are two Chinese aunts in it.

Seeing Li Zhifan and the others coming in, he immediately stood up respectfully.

"Mingzhu, who do you think this is? Li Zhifan! A big star!"

Ma Tengyun happily pulled one of the aunts, pointed at Li Zhifan and shouted.

Then the aunt took a closer look at Li Zhifan, and said in surprise, "I'm so good! Did you see a real person?"

Li Zhifan smiled lightly and asked, "Sister, by the accent, are you from northern Shaanxi?"

"Yes, I am!" The other party laughed, "My hometown is Xianyang!"

"Then do you know how to cook northern Shaanxi delicacies?" Li Zhifan said, "I want to eat a bowl of noodles!"

"Yes! This must be done!"

The Chinese aunt laughed, "It's a pity that there is no mutton soup, but there is beef soup. If you don't mind, I will take beef soup and make you a bowl of noodles with broth!"

"And Xunzi?" Li Zhifan was surprised, "That's really great."

"Hey, I make my own food, I don't sell it!"

The Chinese aunt started to get started.

But what Li Zhifan didn't expect was that the face would actually be reconciled.

(End of this chapter)