I’m in Hollywood Chapter 83: What’s the matter with me

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"I am not a gifted speaker, and I am not good at saying inspiring words. Here I only promise one point: within three years, as long as you do not have problems with your work, Pixar will not have any layoffs."

After Jobs left, Eric said so to all employees in the open office. This is also their biggest concern. In the past year or so, because of tight funds, Pixar has laid off several batches of employees in a row.

Sure enough, after Eric made the promise, many people breathed a sigh of relief. Everyone knows the identity of Eric. The young man in front of him is now a money-loving master. Since he has made such a promise, he will not easily go wrong.

"Okay, now everyone continues to work, and all management come to the meeting room."

After a short commotion, the backbone of Pixar headed by John · Lasseter gathered in the conference room.

"Everyone must know me, and, when I read the materials before, I also did a certain understanding of you, so I can skip this link for the time being when introducing each other."

Low laughter sounded in the meeting room, Eric smiled and waited for a while, then said: "The situation of Pixar was very bad before, but it wo n’t be like that again. You may be very curious why I bought it Pixar, I told John about this, I am interested in 3D animation movies, and I just have money to invest, so I did it. Presumably you will not doubt my vision of the film, according to the short film "Tin Toy" before Pixar ", I thought of a good long story idea ..."

"The wealthy little owner owns a house of toys, because cowboy Woody is the most loved, he rightfully became the boss of all toys. But suddenly one day, the little owner brought back another new toy Buzz Lightyear, Buzz Lightyear looks Novelty, advanced functions, the little master couldn't put it down. The result threatened the status of Woody, so Woody began to find ways to drive Buzz Lightyear away. Under the circumstance of yin and yang, the two toys fell out of the room together and fell into another one who liked to be rough In the hands of the children of the neighbors who treat toys ... "

It took a few minutes to roughly tell the story of "Toy Story", and Eric continued: "When I last met with John, I mentioned to him that I would invest in 30 million USD for this 3D animation movie, Of course, the budget can be added. I only need you to make this animation the best. For me, it does n’t matter if you fail once, but I think that Pixar should not be able to withstand failure. "

The Pixar executives all have dignified expressions on their faces. The previous Pixar can't make ends meet. If 3D animation can't work this way, it is estimated that Pixar will be difficult to stand alone. Eric is very satisfied with the response of everyone. Although he knows that 3D animation will become the mainstream of animated movies in the near future, but now he speaks out to encourage everyone, and these people will definitely not believe it. It might as well put pressure on them in another tone.

"I know that the production cycle of animated movies is very long. I plan to give you three years of production time for this movie. Within three years, there will be no changes to Pixar, and you do n’t need to receive advertising projects. Maintaining the operation of Pixar, you can put all your energy on the production of "Toy Story". Okay, my words are over, now let's talk about your views? "

The coercion left by Jobs also left the Pixar senior with a lingering fear. After carefully asking a few questions, everyone determined that Eric and Jobs were completely different types of people, and finally let go of themselves and began to speak freely.

Because the discussion was too devoted, everyone ignored the lunch time. Until the sunset, the conference room was not too good and the meeting room was dimmed. A crowd of people reacted and it was already dark.

In order to ensure that "Toy Story" does not deviate too much from previous life, Eric spent another three days in Richmond, during which he personally wrote the complete script of "Toy Story", and also denim Woody, Buzz Lightyear, etc. The shape of the whole set of toys is hand-painted and handed over to the Producer member of Pixar.

It was not until Fox Chairman Barry · Diller personally called to remind that Eric, which had disappeared for a week, to attend the celebration of 《Pretty Woman》, he had to leave Richmond.

Eric did not think about moving Pixar to Los Angeles. I privately mentioned a sentence with John · Lasseter. The result is that this matter is difficult to implement.

Most of the technical staff of Pixar have lived in San Francisco Bay for a long time. They are used to everything here, and even many people settle down here. And the environment of Los Angeles is not suitable for animation studios such as Pixar, but Richmond, very close to the Silicon Valley gathered by high-tech companies, but more suitable for the survival of Pixar.

Eric heard the explanation of John · Lasseter and gave up its original plan. Anyway, San Francisco is only five or six hundred kilometers away from Los Angeles, and it can be reached in one hour by plane. It is convenient to go back and forth, and Eric is no longer required.

After staying at the hotel for a week, I finally returned home and took a comfortable bath. There are still hours before the celebration feast in the evening, and Eric is too lazy to prepare. Wearing loose casual clothes leaning on the sofa in the living room, lazily touched the remote control to turn on the TV and watched.

When sleepy, I heard the sound of the doorbell.

Opening the door, the sneaky girl with a wig sunglasses, dressed in ordinary clothes, anxiously waited at the door and looked around from time to time.

"Why did you open the door so slowly, it would be bad to be discovered by paparazzi."

Eric looked at the dress of Julia's and let the girl enter the door sideways: "What are you doing like this, Oh ... a bit like Alison?"

"I let Alison dress like me and leave before I got rid of paparazzi successfully." Julia's tone was a little proud.

"What do you want to drink?" After coming to the living room, Eric asked a question and walked to the refrigerator.

"Coffee, no sugar added, water should not be too hot."

"Oh," Eric responded and gave Julia a glass of juice.

The girl blankly glanced at him silently, and still took the juice: "You are always so hateful."

Eric tilted on the sofa again and looked at Julia with great interest: "You have changed a lot, look at this sitting position, listening to this tone, a Hollywood top actress character is coming, I can bear it. I can't stop asking for a signature from you. "

"No problem, where is the signature?" Julia magically pulled out a signature pen from his arms.

The old **** Eric was looking at the ceiling for a while, as if something was brewing, and then suddenly pulled away the belt of the slacks and glanced inside, shaking his head: "No, I do n’t feel anything about you, I ca n’t sign."

Bah —

The girl's face was reddish and she took a sip at Eric, her eyes panicked and picked up the juice.

After a while, Julia put down the cup: "I heard you bought an animation studio?"

"Well, it ’s too tiring to make Live-Action Film, I plan to switch to an animated movie."

The girl gave Eric a weird look: "Are you serious, okay?"

"It's so familiar, to whom to show it." Eric said, still sitting upright, asking: "Well, what's the matter with me?"