Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 198 The Birth of "Toy Story"

There are many things that cannot be solved once the cause is found, not to mention that half of the cause is still unclear!Seven or eight days have passed since her birthday party, and Angela still doesn't understand what Jessica is thinking.

It is certain that there is something haunting Jessica, and this is related to herself, what could it be?If I apply my original thoughts, then Jessica has some ulterior motives for herself, such as... pushing her down?How can this be!

Angela shook her head, throwing this ridiculous thought out of her mind.However, deep down in her heart, she really hoped that this would be true, but her rationality told her that it was impossible.Anyway, she had to find a way to get Jessica to speak out her thoughts. The girl didn't want to affect the relationship between them. Her intuition told her that if she didn't do this, she might lose Jessica!

At this time, she suddenly felt someone poke her back, and woke up suddenly, only to find that the students in the whole classroom were all looking at her, including the teacher on the podium.

"Well, I'm so sorry, I think I lost my mind." Angela smiled awkwardly.

"Although I know you are very busy, Miss Angela, I have to remind you that if you continue like this, your grade will be affected." The teacher on the podium kindly reminded him that he is a Chinese named Qi Yuhan, and his English name is Nai. Zheer, about 30 years old, wears glasses and is of medium build. He looks gentle and elegant. He is said to have graduated from the Chinese Department of Fudan University in Shanghai. He resigned to study for a Ph.D. in Cambridge. After failing, he ran to California for two years and worked as a... Chinese teacher at Weber High School!

Yes, that's right, Chinese is one of Angela's foreign language courses, and the other is French!Pretty shameless, isn't it?But this is also a strategy, after all, except for the SAT exam.Comprehensive assessment takes up half of the factors, and elective courses take up half of the factors, so why can't you choose what you are good at?

"Okay, let me repeat again, Miss Angela, please go to the blackboard and complete this fill-in-the-blank question." The Chinese teacher pointed to the blackboard and spoke again.

Angela shrugged and stood up.Her Chinese is undoubtedly the best among the students who choose Chinese—even though there are not many people who choose this foreign language, Qi Yuhan once said that her Chinese is better than most of the senior students, so she is often selected to answer questions, This made the girl somewhat dumbfounded.

Coming to the blackboard, after taking the chalk from the other party, and looking at the questions on the blackboard, Angela couldn't help being taken aback, and then looked at Qi Yuhan with a half-smile: "Mr. Qi, this question seems to have exceeded our expectations. Are you at a certain level?"

"It doesn't matter." The other party raised his hand, "I just want to explain the difficulty of Chinese. If you think you can't answer it, then you can give up, it's okay."

"Really? But you may be disappointed, sir." Angela shrugged and smiled slyly, "Don't worry, I will never get a ruler!"

She said and looked at the blackboard. The fill-in-the-blank question on it was like this: When someone wanted to call him, he had already walked out. The words that needed to be filled in were listed below, a total of three: ji, ji, si!

This should be a question that can only be regarded as a question in the third grade of elementary school in China, but it is enough to make many beginners in Chinese feel at a loss or even faint. Fortunately, Angela answered it, otherwise the school doctor's office will definitely add another sick!

The girl readily filled in "has" without the slightest hesitation, and then looked at the Chinese teacher on the side.The other party was slightly surprised, and then applauded: "Very good, Miss Angela." The other students in the classroom also applauded.Many people breathed a sigh of relief, they were all ready to abstain immediately if Qi Yuhan called them.

"Thank you." Angela nodded politely to everyone, and then looked at Qi Yuhan: "Actually, if you use those four words to write a question, I think I can only abstain."

Following her, she wrote the four characters Wu, Xu, Rong, and Shu on the blackboard, then shrugged: "I know they have different strokes and pronunciations, but they are easy to confuse. I have to say that Chinese characters are really amazing."

She said these two passages in Chinese. Even though she has never been to China in the past 14 years in this life, she still spoke correctly and fluently during her private practice, which made Qi Yuhan couldn't help applauding again : "I think I can definitely give you an A+ in the final grade. I believe that if there is a grade test in Chinese, you can easily pass the fourth level!"

The girl smiled and returned to her seat.

When the school bell rang, students poured out of the classroom like a tide, finding their lockers one after another, packing up their things for club activities or going home.

Angela walked to the female campus alone. The thing she criticized the most about the Chinese class was that the classroom was on the male campus. Every time after class, some male students would come over to strike up a conversation. After this year, there will be lower grades, which is really annoying.

The teaching method of American high schools is like this. It is basically similar to that of universities. Students can freely go to the classrooms of related courses to study, instead of teachers going to each class to teach. Therefore, apart from the compulsory courses, Angela and the few girls she met at the beginning of the school are very few. Taking classes together, I'm not as familiar with them as those from the film club.

Opening the car door, the girl sat in and rolled up her skirt—because she had to wear a school uniform to school, she was almost used to wearing a skirt now, I have to say it was a terrible thing—then she threw part of the letters in the backpack to the driver Pu watch the water.

"It seems that there are a lot less, do you want me to congratulate you?" The other party flipped through the letters, and then threw one of them back: "This is written by your fans, not a love letter."

Angela sighed, because the address of the school was exposed by the reporters, and she would receive many letters from movie fans and fans all over the United States every day. Of course, these cannot be cleaned up like love letters, otherwise the paparazzi will find out, and there will definitely be What genius girl doesn't care about her FANS and other news concocted.

"Okay, Ryan, let's drive. I still have things to do this afternoon!" Go to Pixar and witness the opening of a new era of animation!

It took about 20 minutes to get to Pixar. Steve Jobs and other people in the company, CEO Ed Cam, director John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton, were already waiting for her.

The location of the screening is in the meeting room, and playing with a projector can barely find the feeling of a movie.Although there are no opening and closing credits, the quality of the film is indeed very good, and it won warm applause at the beginning.

The memory is so strange, although it has been a long time since the last time I saw Toy Story, but at this moment, after the familiar images flashed in front of my eyes one after another, the fragments deep in my memory gathered together again.Angela was surprised to find that the animation in front of her was at least 90% consistent with the one in her memory in terms of scenes!You must know that the fit rate of the previous movies has reached 60%, which is already remarkable.

Of course, this has something to do with Pixar’s long-completed short animation, as well as the sub-shots I drew, but it’s still a wonderful experience.

After the film was played, the conference room was silent for a moment, and then there was another round of applause, followed by the main creators hugging together and cheering loudly.Angela was not stingy with her own applause. She knew that neither Steve nor Ed, John, the founders of Pixar, would be more excited than these people. He has a detailed understanding of his previous experience!She was taken aback when she discovered that the group had been working on computer animation since the late 70s.You must know that personal computers were just beginning to appear at that time!What crazy and passionate people these guys must be!So Pixar's success is by no means based on accidental factors!

"Okay, everyone." Ed stood up at this time and clapped his hands, "Thank you for so many years of hard work, now the dawn has appeared before us, and the era of computer animation will start from our hands. I can witness this scene. It’s an honor, and once again, thank you for your hard work.”

Applause echoed in the conference room again.

"Then, now, please return to your positions and continue to work hard to complete it, thank you!" Ed raised his hand, and the main creators nodded knowingly, whistled and left the meeting room in twos and threes, until the final meeting Only Steve, Ed, the founders, and Angela were left in the room.

Steve took off his glasses and let out a sigh of relief, pinched the bridge of his nose, and then extended his hand to Angela: "Thank you, Miss Angela."

"It's nothing. I think this will be my wisest investment." The girl gave him a small hug and didn't say much, everything was in the air.In fact, even without her, Pixar will be successful, and her own capital injection just made this matter a little earlier-so far, 2000 million of the 1200 million funds have been invested, and most of them are used to buy The computer has been replaced, and 160 units have been purchased before and after!That's why the cartoon was preliminarily completed at the end of March - not only took a big advantage, but also got the gratitude of others, the most cost-effective thing in the world is like this!

"Okay, let's talk about the next thing now." Ed coughed dryly at this time, "According to the current progress, we can finish all the work in the first week of April. A trial screening can be arranged in three weeks, and after the film reviews come out, a series of publicity will be carried out, and then the summer file will be released."

In fact, no one had a problem, after all, he was the CEO, but he was just setting the stage for what Steve would say next.

"I decided to list the company, about a month before the release of this cartoon." Steve said this, and the fat John didn't object. They had obviously discussed it long ago, so what's the formal proposal? Why?

Angela was a little puzzled, but when they turned their attention to themselves, they realized that they still held 40% of the shares!The girl who had no sense of the boss smiled shyly, then nodded quickly: "I'm fine."

Then, after searching her head for the few financial knowledge, she added: "Then how many shares do I need to allocate to the market?"

Steve laughed: "The preliminary decision is to take out a total of 10% of the shares. You and I need to share about 4%, but it depends on the release of the film."

"Okay, I have no problem." The girl nodded, it's only 4, it's not a big deal, "Toy Story" has a box office of more than 3 million, Steve will not be stupid enough to continue to dilute himself in this situation equity.

"Then, I'll take my leave first." Angela stood up.