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   Chapter 251 Scavenger

   Before Elias could finish speaking, Francisco Coppola said to him, "This is Hollywood!"

  Coppola and Elias have a completely different meaning in Hollywood. Elias wants to use his power to overwhelm people in Hollywood and make Song Yang suffer.

And Coppola of the old rivers and lakes told Elias that in a Vanity Fair like Hollywood, there is nothing that can't be sold, and the amount of chips that can be seen is based on the weight of the Elias family. You have to be careful, one day someone from Hollywood will sell it to Song Yang, and I'm afraid they will still be helping people with money!

   "Bruno Song's film project, we should participate, but not destroy the relationship with the Bruno family." Francisco Coppola said.

Francisco Coppola is a group of veterans, not as impatient as Elias, who only wants to make a big profit. A top rich man is of great significance to the Italians in Hollywood. As long as Song Yang can stand in Hollywood With a firm foothold, the Italians will have another backer in Hollywood.

   But now, Song Yang is not too close to them, and Elias and the Italians in Hollywood obviously want to make a lot of money this time, or get some important roles!

   Hearing Francisco Coppola's words, Elias spread his hands helplessly. He really felt that Coppola's group was old.

Elias believes that when Song Yang comes to Hollywood, he should follow their rules, just like the Italian gangs more than ten years ago. Anyone who enters their territory must pay them according to their rules. .

Even if they were Italians, they might take care of them, but the rules couldn't be broken. Now, Francisco Coppola didn't even want Song Yang to obey the rules. Instead, they seemed to want to support Ren You The meaning of Song Yang's decision made Elias feel dissatisfied.

He entered Hollywood and followed a lot of rules. As soon as Song Yang came in, Francisco Coppola and others gave up the rules for him, which made Elias a little hard to accept. More importantly, , In this way, he can't make a lot of money in this movie project!

  The car drove all the way to the workplace of Lucasfilm. The film studio where various thrilling and gorgeous scenes were shot is actually like a factory, far less sci-fi than in the movie.

For the arrival of Song Yang, Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic also attach great importance to it. George Lucas, who has a big beard and created the legendary series of America's "Star Wars" series, knows that Song Yang wants to Participated in the Industrial Light and Magic studio, and personally brought several senior executives of Industrial Light and Magic to meet Song Yang.

Song Yang came to Hollywood this time, and there were not a few people who were staring at his money bag. Although the movie project had not been written yet, it was already worn by people who thought that Song Yang might throw a beautiful knife this time. , After all, the upstarts of the Internet, when they arrive in Hollywood, are young and rich, they must burn a lot of beautiful knives...

   "Song, welcome to ILM!"

   After seeing Song Yang, George Lucas hugged Song Yang and the others. Lucas was not so rough as he looked, but he was quite enthusiastic towards Song Yang and others.

  In the early years, when he first entered the industry, Lucas was supported by Francisco Coppola. Although he is now close to Jews such as Spielberg, he has a good relationship with Italians in Hollywood.

   "Dennis Mullen, Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic..."

   "Ed Kamuel, the first synthetic CG special effect in Hollywood, was completed by Ed!"

George Lucas introduced to Song Yang that Industrial Light and Magic has obtained a lot of talents. Industrial Light and Magic has held up half the sky of Hollywood special effects. Dennis and Ed are also the best in Hollywood and even the world's film industry. A master of computer special effects.

Song Yang, Gallo and others followed George Lucas to visit the office of Industrial Light & Magic's factory. When they heard that the special effects of the movies were all made here, Gallo and others really felt like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden. .

   "This is a video editing system studio, a film laser scanner..."

   The first thing I visited was a huge computer studio, with computers lined up in rows, making people feel less like Hollywood, but like entering Silicon Valley.

"Pixar Studio's first computer-animated short film, "The Adventures of Andrew and Willie" was completed here, and the special effects of Star Wars, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump and other movies were created here! "

   Dennis Murren spoke to Song Yang about Industrial Light and Magic's sturdy record. If you want to create a special effect movie with a shocking visual effect, you must come to Industrial Light and Magic, which is already a Hollywood practice.

   It is not the models and props that support the special effects of ILM movies, but the professional-level film systems and patents developed by ILM!

Unlike other people who came to ILM, who hurried to see the props room that had been blown up, Song Yang spent more than half an hour in the computer department of ILM, integrating the digital audio editing system, digital picture synthesis system, etc. , I have experienced it all again, and then I stand up with a lot of content.

These film processing systems, as well as those patents, are the accumulation of industrial light and magic for decades, and are also the most valuable heritage of industrial light and magic. Even if you want to build the same special effects studio, the most difficult thing is not to find technicians, but these Film processing systems and patents, this can be done in a short time without spending money!

After leaving the computer studio, Song Yang followed George Lucas and others to visit the production plant of the prop models. Once inside, the character models that appeared in various movies appeared in front of them. These things are industrial Light Magic's props master, made it by himself.

As for the awards won by Industrial Light and Magic, not to mention, as long as you involve technical trophies, Oscars and overseas film festivals are almost all brushed by Industrial Light and Magic. Speaking of, it's already a bit of a bad street!

   After the tour, Song Yang, Lucas and others entered the office. Lucas asked Song Yang, "There are media reports in Hollywood, Song, are you going to invest in an Internet-style sci-fi movie in Hollywood?"

  Denis Mullen, Ed Kamuel and other senior executives from Industrial Light and Magic also looked at Song Yang enthusiastically. They were so active today, and they also wanted to win this big order.

The landlord's family has no surplus, and the Industrial Light and Magic family has a great business, but it is too expensive to do special effects technology. Generally, it is not a big movie production, and basically they will not come to Industrial Light and Magic. The actions that the special effects technicians in those movies can complete will probably cost several times the price of a special effects studio. Therefore, in some movies, they would rather let the special effects technicians take risks than use computerized special effects synthesis.

   "There is this plan. As early as last year, I mentioned to Kevin Kelly that I want to make a movie for Internet culture!"

  Song Yang did not deny it, but directly admitted that he came to Hollywood this time to prepare for the "Matrix" project. Industrial Light and Magic is an inescapable existence, and it definitely needs its special effects technology.

   "The movie project is still under preparation. This movie may need to use a lot of special effects. I think I need technical support from Industrial Light and Magic!"

  Song Yang said it directly. Although there are no scripts, directors, actors, producers, etc., it does not prevent Song Yang from drawing a big cake first.

   "What kind of special effects do you need?" Ed Kamuel couldn't help but ask first.

  Song Yang smiled without saying a word, and didn't say it directly. The biggest special effect selling point of The Matrix is ​​"bullet time", which is imitated by major movies in later generations, almost countless.

After he finished speaking, Song Yang quietly probed Lucas, "Director Lucas, I know that ILM is Hollywood, and even the best special effects company in the world. I don't know if ILM has any. Financing plan?!"

   Hearing Song Yang's sudden remarks, George Lucas couldn't help but smile. He didn't know why Song Yang suddenly mentioned this.

   But George Lucas didn't think much, then shook his head firmly, "I built Industrial Light and Magic by myself. Like Lucasfilm, it's all my hard work for so many years!"

   Lucas's meaning is very clear, that is, he doesn't want to sell these two companies now. Lucas relies on Star Wars movies to support Industrial Light and Magic enough, although he doesn't earn enough.

   If not, Industrial Light and Magic, as a Hollywood favorite, would have had a big movie giant rush to take a bite.

  Song Yang seemed to ask casually, and didn't say much. He reached out to George Lucas, "I hope, I can cooperate with ILM!"

Looking at Song Yang and the others, after walking around, hurriedly leaving Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas looked at Song Yang's figure and couldn't help but fell into contemplation. In addition to having a good impression of Italians, DreamWorks also wanted to take over the film project in Song Yang's hands because of his friend Spielberg.

  Looking at Song Yang's figure, Lucas suddenly felt that this time, the Hollywood group had made a mistake. What if Song Yang was not the fat man in the eyes of the Hollywood hungry wolves, but a dragon across the river? !

   At least since Song Yang visited Industrial Light & Magic in person today, he started to experience the movie processing system, but it is not obvious that he is going to play in Hollywood and leave.

   "Go to Weta Digital Studio!"

   After getting in the car, Song Yang said to Ulf, who was driving, if he just wanted to get a ticket in Hollywood and leave, then Song Yang naturally didn't need to worry about special effects, and it was enough to use the technology obtained by Industrial Light and Magic.

But if you are prepared to stay in Hollywood for a long time and don’t leave, that special effects company will be indispensable. The future of movies will be the era of special effects. No matter how boring the audience is, the special effects of movies will become more and more gorgeous and real. A special effects company of its own will do, otherwise I don't know how long it will take to wait in line for ILM to produce special effects.

   As he was rushing towards Weta Digital's office in Hollywood, Song Yang received a call from Eric, the king of night shows, "Song, Ray Donovan will meet you today!"

   (end of this chapter)