Hollywood Hunter

San Francisco.

Palo Alto City, where technology companies gather in the southern bay area.

After coming to the United States for one month, relying on Silicon Valley's abundant scientific and technological human resources and the financial support of Westeros, Tim Berners-Lee quickly built the basic framework of Eaglet.

Eaglet’s headquarters is located in a three-story white building on Thurman Street, east of Stanford University.

Returning from Europe, Simon has been in close contact with Tim Berners-Lee over the phone. Today, when he had time, he flew to San Francisco to personally check this important technology company in his layout.

Tim Berners Lee personally greeted Simon to the Eaglet headquarters. The two entered the ground floor lobby of the office building and stopped at the same time.

The hall is in a horizontal rectangular pattern and the area is not large.

Outside of the reception desk, the most striking thing is the phrase "Youknownothing" inlaid with different colored letters on the wall behind the reception desk.

Satisfied to stop and look at it for a moment, Simon noticed that Tim Berners-Lee next to him looked at the phrase on the wall as if he was going to say something, and quickly stopped: "Tim, don’t say anything, you can’t do it anyway. To understand the true meaning of this sentence."

Tim Berners-Lee nodded slightly, but still said: "I just think that this sentence is a bit of a warning to the world. No matter how hard we try, our understanding of the world is still shallow."

Simon almost laughed. He felt that he could not bully the honest person too much, so he forcibly held back, patted Li on the shoulder and said, "Yes, so let's go in."

Tim Berners-Lee noticed the strangeness in Simon's expression, but did not delve into it.

The two came to the office area on the first floor. While Li introduced to Simon the staff he had just hired, he explained the results of his work this month.

"I have completed the most basic technical framework of the World Wide Web and submitted patent applications to major countries in North America and Europe. Simon, this is Michael Levy, who is the head of the team on the first floor and is mainly responsible for improving HTML And HTTP and other technical standards."

The Internet is a broad concept that only took shape in the 1990s.

The World Wide Web is the idea of ​​Tim Berners Lee, that is, WWW (WorldWideWeb) technology. This can be said to be the foundation of the Internet. After many years, most of the web pages that ordinary people can access start with WWW. This is enough to show the importance of WWW.

After communicating with the staff on the first floor, the two went upstairs.

The area of ​​this small three-story building is not that big. Igreat currently has 39 employees including Tim Berners Lee itself, so the small building still seems a little empty. However, Li plans to expand the number of employees to 100 in the next few months, and divide them into several teams to be responsible for the development of browser software, web design software, and basic technical agreements.

Simon did not set a too strict timetable for Eaglet. However, according to Li's plan, Eaglet only needs six months to complete its two core products, namely browser software for users and web design software for developers.

In fact, software development is indeed not as tall as ordinary people imagine.

As early as when he was working in Europe, Li had already completed a very primitive web browser software in his spare time, but that software requires the user to set various connection parameters personally, which is not used by ordinary people at all, and is not familiar to later generations. "Home", "Download", "Collection" and other functions.

The next goal of Eaglet is to develop a "dumb" graphical interface browser. When Simon and Lee met in Geneva, they provided him with the mature graphical interface browser design ideas he remembered.

The two of them walked between several teams in the three-story building and brought Simon to the office. Tim Berners Lee excitedly introduced Simon to the prototype of a website he recently built, and the technology used It is his past accumulation. Although the website in front of him can only display the basic profile information of a group of employees hired by Eaglet, Simon can confirm that this should be the world's first network using HTTP protocol and HTML language. Site.

Simon still had a lot of work to do, but he stayed in Palo Alto for a morning and had lunch with a few key employees of Igreat, and he flew back to Los Angeles.

Daenerys Entertainment’s Falcon business jet landed directly at a private airport in the valley.

Rushing to the nearby Warner Studios, Simon just got off the car in the parking lot and was about to go to the post center when a white car drove in.

Noting the figure of a woman in the cab, Simon wanted to leave without seeing it, hesitated for a moment, and stopped. The white car chose a parking space. Today, Renee Russell, who was wearing a black wide-shoulder dress, got out of the car and turned to look to Simon.

Seeing that the little man hadn't left, Renee Russell closed the car door and walked over here with a brown satchel.

However, when she came to the front, the woman hesitated again, not knowing whether to shake hands or hug him, hesitated in her heart, but there was a smile on her face, and she greeted, "Simon, good afternoon."

Simon nodded, turned and walked outside the parking lot.

Renee Russell followed naturally, resenting the little man's inexplicable indifference, but she did not dare to express it.

After a moment of silence, Simon asked, "What are you doing here?"

"The script-reading meeting of "The Good Guy" is in the administration building."

"Oh."

Simon responded, thinking of it.

Martin Scorsese's new film "Good Guy" was invested by Warner, which is actually why Simon can easily put Renee Russell into the film crew. Warner was initially dissatisfied with Scorsese's decision to use Ray Liotta to play with De Niro and Joe Pessi, thinking that Ray Liotta's reputation was too low.

As the first heroine of "Goodfella", if it were not recommended by Simon, Renee Russell would not be able to get this role if she had only one film performance.

Robert De Niro is still busy with the promotion of "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural", and "Good Guy" is scheduled to start in July. However, today is June 21st, and it is indeed time for the actors to rehearse.

The two got off the car in the parking lot of the North Gate, because it was a working day and there were many people in the studio.

Renee Russell has been surrounded by Simon. He heard that almost all the pedestrians along the way took the initiative to greet him. His bodyguard also blocked several men and women who wanted to come forward to talk to him, and inexplicably felt some pride in her heart. . As the vase next to him, she could clearly feel the envy of the girls passing by.

After all, this is Westeros.

In recent weeks, when almost everyone thought that Daenerys Entertainment's "Bodyguard" would lose the box office, the soundtrack album of this film created a miracle that sold over one million copies for two consecutive weeks. Moreover, at the box office, in the third weekend of the past week, "Bodyguard" fell by only 11% compared to last week. In two and a half weeks, the cumulative box office has exceeded 56 million US dollars.

Because there was only a slight decline of more than ten percent for two consecutive weeks, Renee Russell remembered that the North American box office estimate of "Bodyguard" in the last article of the "Hollywood Reporter" on Monday had reached $120 million.

In comparison, the box office of "Ghostbusters 2", which opened almost twice the box office of "Bodyguard" in the first week, dropped by 55% in the next three days. 2"'s North American box office forecast is only 100 million US dollars.

Renee Russell has a deep memory of a comment on The Bodyguard in The Hollywood Reporter.

After the gold medal screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote "Indiana Jones" and "Star Wars", completed the "Bodyguard" script in the 1970s, he was rejected more than 60 times in these years. Almost all Hollywood studios have Not optimistic about this project.

However, the script fell into the hands of Simon Westeros. When everyone was still not optimistic about the film until the film was released, "Bodyguard" unexpectedly created a miraculous soundtrack record sales, which has been strong for several weeks. Box office numbers are far beyond everyone's expectations.

The reporter of the "Hollywood Reporter" commented on the film in a highly admiring tone, mostly due to Simon Westeros. This young man seems to have a natural talent for creating miracles.

At this time, she could walk with him under the envy of many other women.

Although he is very indifferent to herself, she understands that following him out of this small road, the news spreads, and her future development in Hollywood will be a bit smoother.

Hollywood is actually very superstitious about authority.

The budget of "Good Guy" is $25 million, which is not a bottom in Hollywood. It is said that if De Niro hadn't agreed to participate in the performance, Warner would never approve the project, even if the director of the film was Martin Scorsese. Now, because of Simon Westero’s attention, Warner seems to have more confidence in this project.

In the last few encounters, both the director of "The Good Guy" Martin Scorsese or the producer of the film Evan Winkler, both intentionally or unintentionally asked her about Simon Westero’s comments on "Good Views on the script of "Guys". She is a woman with no roots and no bottom in Hollywood. During this time, she has not encountered certain encounters with many unknown actresses among the big names. They all take her for granted as Simon Westeros. lover.

At first, I was a little worried that others would despise myself because of this status, but I gradually realized that most people who knew about it were more envious.

In some small chats in the circle, she also learned that compared to many big names in Hollywood, the private life of this young and famous young man is actually very restrained, and there are actually very few women who can walk to him. So it can be seen how lucky she is.

Lucky?

Perhaps, she was not a naive woman when she was born again. In the face of such a dependence that can make her career easier, she would not refuse. 35 years of life, she has long lost the idealism of young girls. She is even more aware of how rare it is to encounter such an opportunity in this circle.

just.

Most people may not know that in the past few months, she and him have actually only met twice.

Ok.

Counting today, three times.

The administrative area of ​​the cinema is in the southeast corner, but the center of the later period arrived very quickly.

Seeing that he was so dissociated, if she wanted to go directly to the post center, her grievances in her heart became stronger, but she could only take the initiative to say: "Simon, you, uh, do you want to eat together tonight?"

Simon stopped, looked at the woman next to him, and shook his head: "I am a little tired today, let's talk about it next time."

Watching him walk into the post center, there is even a faint urge to shed a few tears.

Soon, he endured it.

There are several people around me looking at myself, how can I lose my attitude. It was more likely that it was because of a hateful man who had so many small selves.

Too hopeless.

So he took a deep breath, smiled at the man and woman who was looking at her, put the bag on his shoulder, turned around and walked towards the administration building casually.

I spent an afternoon casually busy.

In the evening, Simon did not meet Renee Russell again when he left the studio, but Scorsese came to his studio to greet him in the afternoon.

Arriving at the Burbank branch of Daenerys Entertainment, the female assistant is already waiting for him, reporting some things that need his attention today.

After Columbia Pictures announced that "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" was set for July 7, Universal Pictures also announced today that "Paradise Cinemas", which won the Cannes Palme d'Or, will be released on July 28.

Many things have changed.

"Sex, Lies, and Videotape" failed to get Palme d'Or. The marketing measures adopted by Colombia were not as effective as Miramax in the original time and space in Simon's view. It is difficult to say how the film's box office progressed. As for "Paradise Cinema", choosing the schedule at the end of July is even more a mistake in Simon's view.

The original version of "Paradise Cinemas" was re-edited when it was released in North America. Now, in just two months, Simon does not think that Universal can carefully re-edit the film with enough care. If it still follows the 2.5 hour version It's even harder to predict your end when it's released.

What's more, the original time and space Miramax also put the film in the award season for release, to a large extent with the aid of the awards season's Yoron marketing company, which won a good box office. Universal Pictures apparently did not anticipate this.

These thoughts just flashed in his mind, and Simon left them behind.

After get off work, I always leave Burbank and travel through the streets of Los Angeles in a car.

Suddenly remembered Janet's advice when she left Melbourne.

Girls like surprises.

Moreover, after leaving Melbourne for so long, I really have to go back to see women.

So he didn't hesitate anymore, and didn't even plan to go back to the place of residence. He just ordered Neil Bennett in the front row to fly to Australia directly at night.