Hollywood Domination Chapter 307: Strive for excellence
Whether to go in the direction of a large listed company, or continue the current route of small-scale boutique production, before Cesare raised this question, Jenny really never thought that this would be a choice that needed to be made immediately Problem——or she didn't realize that this would be a problem. Maybe one day in the future, Dameng would have to face the decision of whether to go public or not, but she didn't expect Paramount's sense of smell to be so keen, and Dameng just started After developing its own exclusive copyright series, Paramount realized the threat of the big dream: after all, she still underestimated the importance of the series.
Why is Brad afraid of big dreams? In addition to the fact that Dameng is too profitable and its rise is too rapid, more importantly, they can not only produce excellent small productions, but now they have begun to dig out series films. This is a clear sign of the expansion of a small film company. The significance of a trump card series to a film company is simply indescribable. It means stable financial resources, continuous influence, and the improvement of hard power, especially for large-scale production series. This is not something a film company can do if it wants to. Yeah, so when Miramax wanted to get involved in a multi-billion-dollar production, or even explore a commercial series, Disney started to have conflicts with the Weinstein brothers, so the new line survived after getting "Lord of the Rings" In 2009, it still had no choice but to lose the final autonomy and was completely taken over by Warner. Therefore, Lionsgate, the most successful independent film company before the rise of the big dream, has only one "Chain Saw"-you don't have the corresponding funds. If you don’t have the flow, distribution ability and ambition, you won’t enter this field, and if you wait for you to gain a firm foothold in this field, you will really make it big.
Taking Dameng as an example, if this momentum continues for another two or three years, and a few more blockbuster series are discovered, as soon as it is listed and raised, the market value can surpass the film departments of the top six in minutes. Of course, it is possible After the listing, in terms of equity, Big Dream will belong to a giant media group, or it will be completely bought by Disney in the second round of financing, and it will no longer be the company of Jenny and Cesare, but this has nothing to do with Paramount , What Brad saw was that as long as this momentum is maintained, once it goes public, the big dream will be very difficult to control. At that time, if you play dirty again, you may not be able to play with the same backers. Then the box office in North America Under the almost constant premise, the rise of the Great Dream also means the decline of at least one of the six...
One in six chances, what CEO would like that? Robert Iger loves Jenny very much, that's because he is the CEO of the entire Disney Group, and Dameng is also his half-child. Dick Cook, the chairman of Disney Films, doesn't like Dameng that much, although he doesn't As for stumbling Dameng, Jenny reckons that he may hate Dameng more than Brad, because Dameng is directly competing for resources within the Disney Group, and has overlapped with the film business since a long time ago, especially It was Dameng who started to make his own hero film, and even after cooperating with Warner, Jenny didn’t even call to congratulate her when she won the Oscar. Wherever we go, there is fierce competition within the group, not to mention the outside. Therefore, even if the Big Six didn't notice what it means for Dameng to pass the test with their own ability and feel threatened, as long as Dameng continues to develop, after the first commercial blockbuster series independently developed by themselves goes online, the conflict will still It will come sooner or later, and at that time, it may even be that the Big Five will play together and disable Dameng, and then Disney will swallow Dameng in one gulp, letting Jenny and Cesare out-yes, Dameng can continue to dig out hits in the hands of your Jenny The series have brought huge profits to Disney, but a large part of it has to be distributed to you two major shareholders. Instead of spending a lot of resources to protect you, I, Disney, may not succeed, so I might as well just sit on the sidelines Watching the five big shots teach children how to be human, and then eating the copyrights of the most valuable movies of Dameng now, and the executives who have been trained in the company for many years and know the details, they moved the success model of Dameng to Disney for application.
As for Jenny, when the time comes, you will have to start over, and of course it is not impossible to stand up on your own. When you grow to the point where you can threaten the top six again, it will be more than ten years later. Who knows what will happen? If there is any accident, or you will directly join one of the Big Six in the form of a small amount of shares as Weinstein and Disney did back then, and use your wise vision to make money for the Big Six—by that time, in In the field of producers and company managers, she can also enjoy the current princess treatment. It is estimated that if Brad Gray is still in power at that time, he can turn around and make up with Jenny with a shy face, begging Jenny to join Pyra Meng, who made money for him.
After being in the business world for five or six years, Jenny also has "deep confidence" in the Sixth University. She believes that the Sixth University will definitely be able to do such a thing. If Dameng wants to continue to shoot her own commercial series , and even want to develop a new series whose copyrights are completely in their own hands, to do it in the direction of a big company, and a head-on confrontation with the Big Six will definitely come. Among them, Disney's film company may even be in the group A stabbing inside would definitely be a catastrophe for Dameng. It may not be a clear sky if you go through it, but you will definitely suffer a heavy loss if you don't go through it. Sare is right. According to her nature, Jenny really doesn't like this kind of battle with real knives and real guns. Rationally speaking, the odds of winning are extremely small. If she is Chen Zhen who has just traveled to Hollywood, according to the character she has developed over the years, she is likely to choose a more Aggrieved and safe on the path of high-quality small-scale production films - this is the expression of her mentality of being safe when she is a little rich. Although Dameng's current status cannot be described as a little rich, her mentality has not changed much.
This means if——if she is still the Chen Zhen who just crossed over...
I have already washed off the expensive mask on my face and changed into loose seaside home clothes. Jenny is now wearing a sports headband and a pair of light running shoes. Running unhurriedly, the beach house has become a small black dot on the edge of the skyline—this is a deserted road, connecting the island and the mainland, with rocks on the beach on both sides of the road, Farther away were two seawalls, and the waves crashed on the seawalls, making the sound of 'crash, clatter', which was all the sounds that Jenny could hear except the sound of the wind and her own heartbeat.
Years of uninterrupted exercise, martial arts learning, and high-intensity shooting schedules have almost turned Jenny into an iron man. After a short warm-up period at the beginning, she no longer feels strenuous, only the sound of regular breathing And a slightly faster heartbeat, as well as the slight pleasure brought by the release of dopamine after exercise accompanied her-this was the first time she ran outside in many years. Although she also had concerns about sun exposure, Jenny had to admit that she preferred Like the feeling of jogging in the wild, which makes this less than gorgeous decoration, with almost nowhere to go but the beach, this beach house beats those resorts in the Maldives, Tahiti and the Caribbean to become her favorite seaside residence. ——This was almost unbelievable for Chen Zhen in the past. When it came to going on vacation, her first choice was always a five-star hotel. What she valued was the hotel's internal facilities and services: the needs of children and husbands must be considered, including She has been pampered for a long time, and this kind of villa on a deserted island is simply unlivable for her. If Chen Zhen in the past saw the photo of Jenny running on the seaside road, she might think that this is unique to foreigners. It is unreasonable, especially for foreign stars, this is one of their daily weird behaviors, and it is not the choice of normal people.
Yes, it was an inevitable choice for Chen Zhen in the past, but it may not be the same thing for Chen Zhen now: give up being big, stay in the safe zone honestly, and enjoy Robert's love. Shading and pampering, dedicating one's prophetic vision, exchanging and peace between the six... It sounds like a win-win idea, and it sounds quite safe, but...
She continued to run forward, counting her steps silently in her heart, feeling the sweat slipping across her forehead and being absorbed by the hair band. Push it to the back of your head, enjoy the comfortable cool air, and start again when you count to one hundred: 99, 100, 1, 2, 3, 4...
From the very beginning when it was almost impossible to produce a single film independently, now several films have been produced, the box office has exploded, and the company has expanded. Big Dream has become a medium-sized production company with more than 100 permanent employees. We share some resources with Disney movies. For example, digital copy production uses the group’s internal machines instead of an independent copy department. However, the basic production department and distribution department are well-equipped. The distribution department can release 2 films within a year. -3 movies, released 3 movies in a row at the end of last year, which made the distribution department expand a lot in one fell swoop. In Jenny's view, it can have the ability to regularly release 4-6 movies a year, that is to say, it needs to be produced on average every year Produce a minimum of 4 films, otherwise human resources will be in a state of redundancy and waste, and the company will always give people the feeling that it is not stable enough. Besides, if the output cannot increase, the expansion of the film library is too slow, and it is impossible to achieve a steady flow. Every year New films are added to the film library, bringing copyright income, so the company's cash flow will indeed not be too stable, not to mention challenging the Big Six, even if it wants to compete with Lionsgate, it may be a problem.
For this year, Big Dream’s plan is to release two self-produced films, "Twilight 2" and "Slumdog Millionaire", to make Jenny's hero movie, if possible, buy a few with potential The film tried small-scale releases to enrich the film library. However, the latter is full of variables. Now the movie that Dameng is watching is likely to be fired at a high price in an instant. Jenny even suspects that many film companies will take the initiative to release the news after contacting Dameng, because for them, Dameng is like The quality inspection system, the license of the big dream will attract the six big ones with stronger distribution capabilities - the big dream is the cheetah on the African savannah, it is extremely fast and has a strong hunting ability, but after killing the prey, many times it cannot be eaten A few bites will be driven away by the lions and hyenas that come upon hearing the wind, and there is no force value to compete with them.
Since this is the case, it will be a bit difficult for Dameng to maintain the scale of 4 films a year after abandoning the big production series. Movies, either wholly-owned by Dameng or a joint venture, are distributed by Dameng, but the remaining two small productions can only be in the fields of teenage movies, female movies, romance movies, art movies, horror movies, etc., Jenny It is also impossible to turn stone into gold and make each of these films become "prada". In fact, as far as Jenny's own memory is concerned, among the films from 2009 to 2014, even if 15 years are counted, the expectations are extremely high She also knows that "The Hunger Games" belongs to the above category, and the rest she has an impression of, such as "Gravity", "Life of Pi", "Interstellar Crossing"... which one is not an investment A big production of 100 million? In addition to "Fantasy Drifting", there are also potential sequels?
Choosing the latter path is tantamount to giving up your biggest golden finger, and you can only rely on your true picky eye to mix it up. Maybe you don’t know the premise of the golden finger, and you don’t know that your intuition will fail one day Under the premise, Cesare would feel that both paths are feasible, but Jenny knows that if she chooses the hegemony route, Goldfinger can manage it for 6 years, and choosing the boutique route is tantamount to self-defeating martial arts. After all, according to common sense, In other words, the profit probability of a small-production film is countless times lower than that of a large-production film. Without the lucky buff, her myth of film selection will definitely fail very quickly-by then she will not be a threat to the Big Six. , the environment will be a lot more relaxed, but it is conceivable that her status will also plummet, and she will be kicked away from the chess table: she will still be rich, and she will still be very famous, maybe she is an actress in this industry. The status here will be higher than before, but generally speaking, the highest peak of her life will pass, and now, that is, the moment of running by the sea will become the high point of her life. It's just slowly strolling downhill...
Jenny stopped and put her hands on her legs to take a few breaths. She raised her head and took a few sips of water, plugged the water bottle, turned around and ran to the villa that had become a faintly small spot. Not thinking, just enjoying the feeling of jogging at a constant speed. She is the only creature between the sea and the sky. Jenny watched the changing sunset glow in the sky while running. Halfway through the run, she put on her hat, because the sun exposed half of her body on the sea. Sprinkle the sun and Xiaguang full half of the sky.
When she wiped her sweat and walked into the house, the living room had already been lit, and the wet footprints stretched from the back door all the way upstairs. It seemed that Cesare had just returned from the beach not long ago. With a grimace, she walked into her suite, took a shower happily, then changed into home clothes and walked into the dining room, opened the refrigerator and took out her own box of salad.
"While I'm out for a run, is there anything I need to know?" she asked, leaning on the doorframe, biting her fork as she walked to the kitchen.
Cesare turned away from the fire, still holding the saucepan in his hand, and he was just stirring the stew in the casserole: every morning an hourly worker would come from the sea to clean the house for them, and Cooks two meals, she's not very skilled, but Jeanne feeds well, she eats almost nothing but salads and boiled meats, there happens to be a family farm in town that provides greens - Cesare sometimes drives The Italian restaurant in town, packed back some stew, and he just had to fire it up and reheat it.
"I don't know." He seemed to have returned to his home state. "Since we are on vacation now, I won't check my phone and email at any time-there are no missed calls, and the outside world should still be calm."
Jenny shrugged, "OK—want dinner together?"
Despite the brief experience of living together before, this is because she and Cesare really lived under the same roof. Of course, they had many experiences in the same suite before, but the design of the presidential suite made them more like roommates. The dinner they shared was more like a working meal, they would talk about work, of course, some industry gossip, about the public part of Jenny's life (that is, most of her life), in general, The topics related to work are always endless. Although they are alone, they don’t have the feeling of life—the outside world seems to be around them all the time, but in this isolated house, when they start 24 hours When getting along, the real life finally began to emerge, but Jenny and Cesare didn't have much talk, and often they even had dinner in their own rooms, not because they felt uncomfortable with Cesare's existence, at least for him. For Jenny, this kind of loneliness makes her feel very comfortable, just like Cesare said, although this vacation also has its purpose, it is more or less a vacation, and she hopes to enjoy some private life. Life, temporarily leave those jobs that are not urgent, and between you and Cesare, if you don’t talk about work——
Jenny doesn't know what she is contradicting. According to common sense, the more casual her and Cesare's body language is, the more convincing the whole story of love and marriage is, so maybe they should be more familiar than before Some, this is a work need—but, because it is a work need, she doesn't like it so much, it feels like talking about private affairs, or even sharing some daily hobbies, knowing some details about Cesare's life will make The further blurring of the boundaries between work and private life creates a sense of uneasiness, which she guesses is why she sometimes feels a bout of discomfort, or even fear, which should have something to do with what Maggie told her about her personal space : When work oppresses personal space, when a person is forced to give up*, her subconscious will feel extremely huge pressure, which is probably the source of uneasiness.
At this point, she has not communicated with Cesare, but Cesare seems to be satisfied with their way of getting along and doesn't mind. Jenny speculates that this may be because he always needs to take care of others. His occupation, his identity, and his personality all determine that he is the one who makes arrangements and takes care of the overall situation. Although this arrangement may not please others, but for other people It should be commonplace for Cesare to adjust one's own thoughts in order to bring the two parties to an agreement. Swimming, surfing, fitness, and reading alone seem to be very rejuvenating for him, so although before this afternoon , They basically ignored each other's existence, and only talked a few brief words a day, but the atmosphere in the room was not awkward, on the contrary, it could be said to be tacit and happy.
Now, when Cesare sat down across from Jenny with his casserole, she felt a little nervous—she and Cesare had so many meals together, many of them private. narration, including a certain degree of emotional exchange, but... In the new relationship between the two parties, it seems imperative to **** and define a new way of getting along, and Jenny does not want to be dominated by her insecurities, she does not want to I hope that every time I communicate with Cesare, I will be affected by the marriage contract and the fact that "everyone in the world thinks that she and he are madly in love", instead, the intimate cohabitation life will push their distance away.
Suppressing the discomfort, and no longer looking at Cesare's eating movements, Jenny forked a carrot and threw it into her mouth, ordering herself to put down her guard—if they want to make a choice about the future at this moment , Then, Cesare has the right to know all the chips of the big dream, he must know when Jenny's intuition will fail, and she will flash a few times in the past few years.
"If I tell you," Jenny said while chewing, somewhat inarticulate—"If I tell you, in six years, I may no longer be able to make such accurate judgments, What would you think?"
Cesare scooped up a ladleful of stew and poured it over the rice. He glanced at Jenny.
"You can no longer make such accurate judgments—" he said, "You mean, your intuition will fail in 2015?"
Jenni flinched: Hearing Cesare's voice utter this secret that she had kept secret, was more or less horrifying.
"It's almost like this." She took a sip of water and tried to calm down her tone, as if she didn't care about it.
"Okay." Cesare shrugged and put the rice into his mouth. He didn't seem too surprised, "That explains a lot."
"Explains a lot?"
"When you created your big dream, including investing in "prada", your style was much more impatient than the impression you gave me." Cesare said, it seems that these details have long been buried in his heart, but before he Didn't choose to point it out - Jenny had that feeling of being seen through again, as if she had been beaten by Cesare - as if Cesare had been quietly giving in to her on something , "It gives me a feeling that you seem to be in a hurry to accomplish something, and time seems to be very precious to you-now, combined with your statement, all of this is of course much more reasonable."
In the end, his tone was a little subtle, as if hinting at Jenny, he would never ask where this intuition came from, and hoped that Jenny would not use her answer to impact his world view, Jenny was caught by his Persistence—this insistence of always refusing to be surprised, felt amused for a while, and she relaxed, laughing and biting a vegetable leaf.
"So are you going to throw me out in 2015?" she asked, "Kick me out of the company and leave me with nothing."
"I also plan to sell you into the sultan's harem." Cesare said solemnly, he glanced at Jenny from above the dinner plate, "I have already found a buyer—otherwise, why do you think I would come forward in person Receive Saeed Al Nahyan?"
Jennie couldn't bear it anymore, she knocked on the table and laughed, Cesare swallowed the food, took a sip of water, he shook his head, and laughed with Jenny for a rare moment, just like every one of his Like a sincere smile, this smile makes him look very young and cheerful, and it can even be said that he is completely different from him at work.
Among the laughter, the atmosphere in the restaurant became more relaxed—it was as if the world had found a more tacit way of running, and the tension that had been brewing for a long time quietly dissipated. Jenny wiped the corners of her eyes and laughed Tears, put down the fork, and rested his chin.
"Okay, let's make an assumption—assuming you don't sell me to Saeed," she asked with interest, "then, knowing 2015, we won't With cheap, unremarkable and lucrative options like Twilight and Slumdog Millionaire losing all that advantage - would you choose to try to be number seven? "
Cesare thought for a while, "It depends on how many chips we can accumulate in the next few years-if your instinct can only provide some small-produced films, then the squeeze of the six majors will not be a problem." , because it's not going to continue, and if your instincts give us six or eight big hits a year—"
"Then we won't be able to eat it." Jenny said, and Cesare shook his head, "But in that case, I can use these chips to earn us a lot of space."
"Okay," Jenny sighed, "there's only one series that has exploded from a small production. The rest I can think of is "The Hangover" that we didn't win at the end of last year——"
"The Hangover" is also a series that Jenny really wants to win, but unfortunately, the script of this film has existed for several years. I didn’t like the idea, so I just set up my own company to attract investment. When Jenny heard about this film, their funds were also in place one after another. Dameng just participated and invested a little money in it, but didn’t get the copyright. As for the distribution rights, it was also bid by Warner—after Dameng invested, "The Hangover" immediately attracted considerable attention in Hollywood. Dameng has no advantage over Warner in terms of distribution. This is a typical cheetah who only ate a bite of meat , and the rest was given to the lion.
"——there are two adaptations of best-selling novels," she wrung her fingers to calculate, and the more she said, the more guilty she became. Age popcorn films... sci-fi movies..."
Looking at Cesare, Jenny shook her head apologetically, "There are also some award-winning films that I'm not sure whether they can make a lot of money, that's about it."
Cesare's eyebrows were raised high, and the hand holding the spoon was in the air, as if making a wordless comment, Jenny spread her hands at him, "Yes, basically every work It's all—series, big budget, commercial...every series can start a company, and if we get them all, if we can all run successfully, and be able to go full steam ahead in the meantime—"
"Dream has a great chance of becoming the seventh largest film company in Hollywood, or second only to the sixth largest film company." Cesare finished for her, his eyes seemed to be burning, "Dream will completely Become a big film company."
"——at the same time, it will inevitably arouse the coveted and jealousy of the six majors," Jenny pointed out, "attracting their strife, and at the same time, we will lose the confidence to develop new series, and we will lose one of our core advantages ——"
"It sounds like this will get Dameng into a lot of trouble," Cesare said, his expression returned to normal, he put the rice in his mouth and chewed, "Yes, you are right , Dameng will have a very difficult time at that time, we may not be able to make it through, you should really think about this."
"And this doesn't seem to shake your confidence," said Jenny, taking a sip of water, her eyes still on Cesare, "are you not worried that you will fail? You know, we are only talking about the most An ideal situation, and in this most ideal situation, the situation that Dameng has to face can also be described as a narrow escape—"
She looked at Cesare, at his calm and indifferent expression——
Without going on, Jenny changed her posture and supported her slipped elbow on the table again.
"I decided to stay with the commercial series," she announced, "and I made the same choice as you—I decided I wanted to dream big."
This time, she finally saw a trace of shock on Cesare's face. Although it disappeared quickly, it still made Jenny feel a little excited and proud, as if she had won Cesare once invisibly— ——She exceeded his expectations once, he thought she would be safe, but she exceeded his expectations——
"May I ask why?" Cesare swallowed the rice, took a sip of water, and washed down the grains of rice in his mouth. He looked at Jenny carefully, as if he was exploring her inner thoughts. , it is difficult to judge whether he is excited now, this man's self-control is sometimes as outstanding as steel.
"Because I am me," Jenny said seriously, with a deliberately solemn look, "I am a girl who strives for excellence."
She laughed, thinking of the parting words Cesare gave her in Dameng's office, and sometimes she felt—though of course he would never admit it, but Cesare really liked it Be cool. "Remember? Pursue excellence, always pursue."
In the final analysis, this is just a joke. Jenny knows that she has to make some explanations. This will also strengthen her and Cesare's confidence and let them reach an agreement on the future of the big dream. Maybe it is a development idea, maybe even just A kind of spirit, a kind of spirit—the spirit of pursuing excellence—a kind of spirit that when you are close to having everything, you still meet the challenge without fear, or even be attracted by the challenge, actively seek the challenge, a kind of spirit to face the challenge. No matter how difficult the difficulties are, he always maintains a spirit of firm confidence, a spirit of knowing people and doing good, giving absolute trust to partners, and never giving up. There is no doubt that Cesare will definitely choose to face difficulties among the two choices. And up, but he gave her the right to choose——
Jenny wants to say this, she wants to say after laughing, "Because your choice has important reference value for my choice, and I know what you will choose—"
——But, she saw Cesare's eyes in the laughter, saw the change of blue eyes, and saw the arc of his mouth——she saw the change of Cesare's expression——
The familiar, lingering tension returned, as if a spring had been tightened again, making the comfort disappear. Jenny pursed her lips and swallowed what she wanted to say When she said it, she was absent-minded, saying where she thought, "No, seriously, because excellence means that you will always have a choice, and I hope I can still retain the power to choose... Pursuit of excellence means that maybe you can still choose." Regret means you are still regretting..."
She suddenly realized that she had slipped her tongue, and Jenny hurriedly interrupted her words, secretly cursing her increasingly relaxed guard: To be honest, her secrets are really running out, so in Cesare It is becoming more and more difficult to maintain this kind of vigilance in front of you——
Carefully glanced at Cesare, hoping that he would not notice her negligence, but Cesare's meaningful eyes made Jenny's scalp explode--obviously, it would be a ghost if he would miss this--
"So," Cesare said, he ended his eye contact with Jenny, lowered his head and dug another spoonful of rice, "We are really going to go down this road."
Jenny breathed a sigh of relief, she quickly grasped the topic, "But you don't really sound too nervous."
"I don't think there's anything to be nervous about," Cesare said. "The company has a solid cash pile and everything is going up. In the next few years, we will have some surprise gifts to start with, and This does not include the expected return on the company's regular investment. I understand the situation more clearly than ever-"
The meaningful look came again, but it only lasted for a moment. Cesare let Jenny go, "I am 33 years old, and I have the opportunity to lead our company together with my entrepreneurial partner." Be the 7th biggest in hollywood - I'm only 33 years old and have the chance to dominate a major studio - if I go to Disney, how long do I have to wait to be the CEO of the group? Even if it's just a chance, Jenny, at 33 years old to get it , why should I be nervous? Getting it is already a miracle in the eyes of the world, so why can't the miracle happen again?"
The 33-year-old Cesare is no longer like the 26-year-old him, who would happily pick up the wine and drink it down after securing a big case. He also didn’t have a tie to wipe his mouth. He was dressed casually A loose polo shirt, and even stirring the food in the bowl while talking, however, his smile, the way he lifts his lips and smiles—his wolf smile almost never changes.
"It's bound to happen again," he said, picking up the water jug and filling Jenny with water, "I can assure you—it will happen."
Jenny stared at him, couldn't help grinning, at this moment, tension, worry - fear, relaxation, many distracting thoughts retreated to the depths of her mind, all she could pay attention to was Cesare's guarantee, only this This kind of firm and unreasonable confidence, this kind of solid strength is like an anchor, cutting through her doubts, it seems to let the big dream, a small boat drifting with the current, and the treasure land in the fog of the future A connection has been made, the road is still far away, the line is still very thin, but—they will get there.
"I want you to promise me one more thing." She said, raising her water glass to touch Cesare. "If you can—try not to sell me to an Arab sultan."
"Then you are asking too much," Cesare said quickly. "Ma'am, then you are asking too much."
The water glass made a crisp sound above the dining table. The young big men glanced at each other and laughed at the same time. The laughter escaped from the living room with warm yellow lights, and slightly above the warm house. Hovering, it was soon blown into the sea by the wind, blowing into fine waves...