Chapter 367 Producer Arrives

The visit was pleasant. In fact, Wang Xu's behavior was more in line with the habits of the ugly guests. They did not have the idea that visitors are guests.

In fact, if you stay in the West for a long time, you will know that most of their thoughts are really simple, without so many twists and turns, and their living habits are simple and direct. Even polite greetings are learned skills, without the kind of enthusiasm from the heart.

Receiving guests is even simpler. There is no idea that guests from afar are guests, and they will not take out the best things to entertain guests. Being able to provide meals is a high standard.

The core ideas of Westerners actually come from pirate ideas, such as the famous voting system, which is called a democratic system in other words.

Even nomadic horse bandits don't need this, because nomadic peoples are partners who rob each other, and there is no need for division of labor. They just need to notify the time and act together. There is no distribution of spoils.

And sailing requires cooperation. Even if the original captain of a ship dies, when you are in the sea and there is no village or shop, you have to quickly elect a new leader, so elections came into being.

Therefore, democracy was originally used by pirates to divide the spoils. When several groups of pirates agreed, let's go rob a big ship together. How to act and how to divide the spoils need to be set up in advance.

After all, there must be a division of labor for so many ships. Who is responsible for fighting, who is responsible for looking out, and who is responsible for moving things? This kind of cooperation is much more troublesome than horse bandit robbery. You even have to drive the other party's ship back, which is also a spoil of war.

Therefore, the rules became necessary, but they didn't trust each other, so what should they do? It's easy. Vote, first choose a big leader, then fight together, and finally distribute according to how much effort you put in. These should be written down before, and everyone presses their fingerprints. This thing is the contract.

Therefore, the contract is also a product of pirates, not the legendary trade. The earliest trade was barter, without even money. Later, it was cash transactions, with money and goods delivered in one hand. What's the point of a contract? At that time, there was no warranty, and transactions were counted in person.

Therefore, early trade could not produce so-called contracts, let alone the spirit of contract.

That would happen after sufficient capital accumulation. In the early days of trade, there was no need for contracts.

So, democracy, voting, and the spirit of contract were actually used by pirates to divide the spoils, and had nothing to do with farming or trade.

Later, this group of pirates became prosperous and entered the city. They found that the hereditary system of the nobles was not working. They could not get any benefits, and the benefits were all taken by the nobles.

What to do? Then vote. First, choose a big leader, then fight the nobles together, and then rob the money and share it.

Later, their descendants began to have culture. No matter where they learned it from, they had to find a decent origin for their voting method.

Okay, ancestor Ya, you have suffered, and this also belongs to you, called: democracy.

Well, that's probably what it means. Moreover, using ancient texts to create texts is a phenomenon that often occurs in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

For example, the suspected Shangshu pseudo-classic in China lasted for a thousand years, and finally accumulated doubts and became a pseudo-classic, and finally pulled the Shangshu, one of the Four Books, off the altar.

Later, the descendants of that group of people occupied the whole world, so they had to justify themselves. I can't say that my ancestors were all pirates, that would be too embarrassing.

Our ancestors were also rich, they must have been rich, they must have inherited ancient civilization, thousands of years old, and they must be unparalleled in the world. So they forcibly created a maritime civilization and boasted everywhere that they were more adventurous.

Think about it, even nomadism can't produce a real civilization, they can only learn a little bit by robbing things from agricultural civilization, and what can fishing and hunting, which is even more unstable than nomadism, produce?

They can make up a nation, an empire, whose survival depends entirely on trade? Don't be funny, with the shipbuilding technology of that era, and the navigation technology without even a compass, if the wind was a little strong that year, the clan would be wiped out directly.

Not to mention that time, even now, if a country's GDP accounts for too much foreign trade, it is a very dangerous thing. Look at Vietnam after the epidemic, trade once accounted for 90%, and then people's demand fell, click, and it collapsed all of a sudden.

In ancient times, four thousand years ago, you exchanged olive oil for food? Why is your olive oil so precious? It's no problem to exchange a little, but it's funny to exchange it for half a country's food.

Farming is the way for human beings to enter civilization. Only with farming can we settle down in the true sense, get food stably, pass on our family line stably, accumulate surplus, have leisure time, and have time to do some spiritual things.

Only with farming can we have real assets, that is, land, and we need to use force to protect our wealth, and we need a more complex social structure to resist foreign enemies and acquire new land.

This is even a fact widely recognized by Western historians, but they just make up a marine civilization for you and tell you that it is more advanced. You have no place to find anyone to reason with.

In the 1980s, Wang Xu knew how much trouble this thing caused. Many people recognized from the bottom of their hearts that marine civilization was more advanced than continental civilization. Going to the blue was not the dream of the navy at that time, but the dream of countless elites.

However, these are just a little bit of history. Time flies. Compared with the West, China has a solid foundation. After being tossed around by various powers around the world for more than a hundred years, it still returned as a "young man".

Wang Xu is not a believer in Western pseudo-history, nor is he a master of history. He has not even read their history books.

However, even if you take a quick look, you can feel that there are flaws everywhere. Well, flaws, not even doubts.

There is no such rigorous feeling as when reading Western scientific enlightenment books, which are as if they are works of art and are breathtaking.

Therefore, Wang Xu's attitude towards the West is even more indifferent than that of ordinary time travelers. It is a kind of confidence based on his own strong ability and certainty about the future. It is flamboyant and surging, but he can't make others feel the same.

He has been tossing around so much, but in fact, he is just adding some chips to his country and adding a little confidence to his nation. Maybe it will still take 20 to 30 years, but even if some results are produced in advance, it will be good to make the Chinese people happy.

Wang Xu, like a big leader, took a large group of people accompanying him to visit. He looked around in front of the still barren land, and then roughly introduced his plan, saying that this was a future film and television shooting base.

Listening to Wang Xu's confident introduction, the translator quickly translated Wang Xu's grand blueprint for him, and Robert Shaye had to further modify his opinions on this collaborator.

At first, when he saw the first part of the sample film, he didn't pay much attention to Wang Xu's appearance. He only felt that although the male and female protagonists were not well-known actors, their acting skills were remarkable and their images were very matched, but these were just appearances.

As a mature producer, Robert Shaye saw a passionate and imaginative young director. He had a burst of imagination, unconstrained ideas, and a steady and solid camera movement. It can be said that he was a rare young director.

When he came to the imperial capital, he saw Wang Xu for the first time. He was tall, beautiful, fair-skinned, elegant, and full of artistic atmosphere. He had the urge to become gay.

Especially after visiting Wang Xu's paintings and photography exhibitions, he felt that Wang Xu was an artist who was too young, but talented and outstanding in appearance. His artistic style was really unconcealable.

Later, accompanied by Wang Xu, he briefly visited Wang Xu's studio and saw his futuristic layout and a computer team of up to 100 people.

He felt that Wang Xu was not only a producer and director with ideas and achievements, but also a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was extremely familiar with technology and had a clear grasp of the future.

Now, when he watched Wang Xu pointing out the mountains and rivers and waving his hands in a wasteland, he felt that he was really fascinated, and even felt like he was watching an idol.

The calmness and confidence from the heart, which was completely different from the usual friendly and lazy look, let Robert Shaye know that this collaborator was unusual and he had to change his original strategy. This was an excellent collaborator for long-term cooperation.

Of course, Wang Xu didn't know Robert Shaye's psychological changes. This visit was not just Robert Shaye's guest. Didn't you see a large caravan of people?

The four major directors were all there, and the three districts of Chaoyang, Haidian, and Changping in the capital all sent people to participate. Shuimu, Diying, and Didu Film Studio were also like this, and most of the subordinate studios would also come to join in the fun and take a look.

Young, old, coming to learn, to study, to beg, to discuss, although the purpose was different, but they were all people who were of great help to Wang Xu.

Wang Xu took everyone to visit his own cultural industry this time, in fact, he also wanted to show off to everyone, well, or report.

That is, you see I didn't mess around, the things here are very awesome, even if it's a piece of wasteland, I will make you do something fancy, if you have money, just invest, if someone gives it, I can take it.

Except for the factory over at 798, Wang Xu's other industries related to entertainment were all within the scope of today's visit.

Even after Tang Yun built the office building, Wang Xu took everyone to visit the new Wang Chao store on the opposite street.

This store is a branch store, and the decoration is more luxurious than the previous one, but it only sells ready-made clothes and does not provide customized services. The previous store has already established a good reputation, so it is not easy to change the location.

Robert Shaye even bought a few sets of clothes, saying that he would bring them back to his wife. Wang Xu gave him two more sets as gifts.

Wang Xu is arrogant, but he will not delay normal interpersonal relationships. Wang Xu always gives people a sense of alienation that is approachable but unapproachable. Except for a few friends around him, Wang Xu has always had a good sense of boundaries.

Arrogance is okay, but arrogance is stupid. There is actually an essential difference between the two. Arrogance is actually humility and a clear understanding of oneself, while arrogance is the exact opposite.

Robert Shaye knew that he was not the only guest, but it made him feel that today's visit was particularly relaxed. After the visit, he asked Wang Xu to find a guide for him after he finished moving freely, and then carefully visited the two future city streets prepared for the film.

He even took out his camera to shoot around, went into every storefront to have a look, and even spent a long time studying how the floor was made. Wang Xu ignored him. This man was obviously in working mode, which showed that he was very serious and earnest about the profession of producer.

This was not a casual person, no wonder he was able to organize a super production like "The Lord of the Rings" later.

Apart from other things, the scale of photography of "The Lord of the Rings", the organization of the special effects team, the coordination of multiple locations, and the speed of producing the film in just over a year, all can only be said to be this producer is very powerful.

Okay, Wang Xu knew that the investment and producer were stable. In fact, Wang Xu really lacked producers here.

He had not cooperated with a producer yet. Now he and Wang Jinghua were doing things based on their feelings. The planning of doing things was quite different, not to mention that he had a lot of energy wasted on various research and development projects.

And Xu Ke came here to think about his next film rather than being a producer. He often pulled the technical staff to discuss the special effects of classical fairy heroes.

Han Sanying is a hands-off boss who doesn't even come. He has to learn after he officially takes office, but he has no time at all. The Imperial Capital Film Studio only gave him a name and invested a little money.

He simply doesn't want to come. A name is enough, and he needs a name.

Wang Jinghua is a half-baked person, and she has to learn everything again. Moreover, Wang Jinghua's future path is not to be a film producer, but an entertainment tycoon. She doesn't want to spend too much energy here.

The result is that one monk carries water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, and three monks have no water to eat. No one on Wang Xu's side manages the film affairs, and most of the things are still done by Wang Xu himself.

The main problem is the talent. No one here has made such a large-scale film. Although the investment is from three parties, everyone knows that Wang Xu is the leader. If he can't get the leadership, why bother?

Therefore, Jiahe, which has some experience in large-scale productions, has a mentality of waiting for a good show. Otherwise, why would Zou send Xu Ke as a producer? His wife has more experience in producing than him.

But there is no need to worry this time. Robert Shaye is here to help. This guy is very interesting. Although he is the boss and CEO of New Line, he often leaves his company's work to work as a producer. He even disappeared for a month.

Wang Jinghua arranged an assistant for Robert Shaye, named Zhang Dajun, who is from the capital, two years older than Wang Xu. He has not graduated yet, but was recruited by Wang Jinghua in advance.

He is now in the photography department of Imperial Film Studio, a junior of Zhang Yimou, and is a senior this year.

Han Sanying arranged him to come here for internship at first. Wang Jinghua saw that he was good at English, so when Robert Shaye came here, she pulled him over to serve as an assistant.

Then she recruited this guy and agreed that he would join the studio after graduation and officially become a professional producer.

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(See you another day)