Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 179: Going to High School

There was a soft knock on the door, and then Elena pushed the door open and walked in.

"Hi, honey, how's it going?" she asked after closing the door, walking up to her husband.

"It's... regrettable," Jared spread his hands, showing a helpless smile, "I can be sure of one thing, our daughter is really not suitable for finance."

"But you agreed to her investment." Elena was slightly surprised.

"Yes, because she is really working hard, and she is doing pretty well." Jared stood up while speaking, then took a bottle of red wine and two glasses from the wine cabinet, poured them, and held them in front of his wife : "So you can celebrate."

Elena took the cup and frowned slightly: "Jedi, you have confused me."

"Okay, let's put it this way." Shaking the glass in his hand, Jared thought about his words before slowly opening his mouth: "Kriss is working hard to collect data for analysis, and she has indeed caught Some key points. Remember, I told you that the four key executives at Pixar, John Lasseter, got there when he was fired by Disney, and Ed tried to teach at a university, but it didn't work out. Smith was at Xerox's PA Lo Alto Center, but his department was abolished, and Steve was kicked out of the Apple Computer Company he founded-although I supported him at the time, anyway, the future created with these losers, It is something that needs to be considered. And Chris obviously noticed this, but her view is that failure is the mother of success, and because they have all suffered huge failures, they will be more daring and ambitious when creating the future. She will be more cautious! This point of view cannot be said to be novel, but it is indeed convincing. And she also made a lot of evaluations about using animated films to create value. Although there are Steve's statements in it, they are also true."

After a pause, he continued: "But she overlooked several important points, one of which is that Pixar has been losing money since it was acquired by Steve. Until now, there are not enough attractive conditions , no one will invest. The reason given by Chris is that digital animation has a broad road, and it will inevitably get a big piece of cake in the animation market in the future, but what she cites is obsessed with computer animation. .Such as Andrew Stanton and others, and according to my understanding, many professionals believe that computer animation is a dead end, including Disney's hand-painted master Frank Thomas."

"Two extremes?"

"Yeah, two extremes, but it's interesting that Steve and I talked about it when we were playing golf, and even he doesn't really look at computer animation very well. In the first half of the year, he was still planning to think about it. Selling Pixar to Microsoft, obviously, although he has never lacked faith, he can hardly persist in the face of ten years of consistent loss reports." Jared shrugged and drank the red wine in his glass . "Kris is very smart, she has dreams and passion. She is our pride, however, she still lacks a little setback. I want to pass on my most precious things to my children, not my favorite family property!"

And Elena nodded after thinking about it for a while: "I want to understand what you mean. Even though Chris doesn't have financial talent, she is really working hard and earnestly when she determines her goal. , so it doesn’t matter even if you fail, right?”

"Yes, dear." Jared smiled, "As for Pixar, whether it succeeds or fails, it's all about Chris's growth."

"Okay. I hope she grows up smoothly!" Elena smiled and raised her glass.

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Angela, who didn't fully know her parents' painstaking efforts, was on the phone. Of course, if she knew about it, she might sneer at it.She's not sure about anything else, but she does know quite well about Pixar's development.In fact, she had already planned to wait for the release of "Toy Story", and laughed at her father after Pixar's stock market surged.Of course, before that, she'd better do what she had in hand before talking about it.

"What does agree in principle mean?" Angela asked, sitting on the bed and holding a microphone.

"It means that the relevant departments of the record company have agreed to this plan, but it still needs the audience's response. If this MTV has been well received after it airs, then the plan to make it into a drama series can be implemented." Sparrow said in The other end of the phone explained.

"Okay, I see, so why did you reject me as the director?" the girl asked again.

A wry smile came from the phone: "It's normal, Angie, I warned you from the beginning, no record company will use someone who doesn't know anything and has no experience to shoot MTV!"

"But it's not that I don't know anything, and everyone has never experienced it!" Angela couldn't help retorting.

"But you are only 14 years old, Angie, you are too young anyway, even if you are a genius." Sparrow said reassuringly.

The girl was silent for a while, gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, let's do it, you tell them! If they agree to let me be the MTV of this song, I can pay for all the expenses, and I will hand over 5 scripts to them in the future operate!"

"Angie..." It can be heard that Sparrow is smiling wryly, "Do you think this is okay, Angie? And even then Disney may not agree. Do you have to be the director of this song?"

"Yes! Definitely! If they still refuse, then I will increase the price until they agree!" Angela sat up and almost blurted out.

The other side was silent for a while, and then sighed: "You are too excited, Angie, I think you should think about it and regain your sanity. Even if you want to persist, you have to think of a reason that can convince them."

The girl was silent, she covered her forehead with a wry smile on her face, and she was a little impulsive again, but she was really anxious, "That's the Truth" was one of the few MTVs she remembered completely, that's why she wanted to To experience the actual operation of the director by copying this, in any case, no matter how much theory is known, it is better to do it once.

But although I have confidence in myself, the record company does not necessarily have confidence in myself.As Sparrow said, he is only 14 years old, and throwing money at people is undoubtedly the stupidest way.

"Okay, I'll think of another way." Angela finally said with a sigh.

"Okay, then call me if you need to, goodbye."

Sparrow closed the line, the girl sighed again, and then she was about to wash up and go to bed. She didn't want to think about it so much for the time being, and she had to attend the opening ceremony of high school tomorrow.

Early the next morning, my mother knocked on the door of her room: "Hey, Chris, don't forget what you have to do today!"

"Got it, Mom, I'll be fine soon." Angela opened a gap and made a face outside.

"Okay, you still have 15 minutes." Elena smiled and left.

The girl in pajamas behind the door closed the door, stared at the clothes that had been thrown on the bed for a long time, then reluctantly took off her pajamas and began to put them on.

A light blue shirt, a black tie, and a blue-black jacket form the upper body. There is a large school badge on the left chest of the jacket, while the lower body is a blue and white plaid skirt that reaches above the knee, and just right Black stockings covering the calves, and dark brown leather shoes.

Looking at herself in the mirror, Angela turned around, then shook her head straight, wearing a school uniform would only make her think of an AV actress, not a high school girl.

"But I hope I don't have to wear it at any time in the future." The girl murmured, then took the schoolbag she had prepared and went downstairs.

"Hi, dear, you look very beautiful and full of youthfulness." In the restaurant, the father who put down the newspaper greeted her like this.

"Really, thank you, Dad." But the girl replied unhappily. After sitting down, she devoured it for a while, and then left quickly, leaving Jared a little confused. Looking at his wife, he asked strangely: " Did I say something wrong?"

"No, dear, it's just that Chris is going to high school for the first time, and it's inevitable to be nervous or excited." Elena thought so, so she didn't interfere with her daughter's unladylike behavior just now.

Of course, for Angela, certain feelings were really terrible. When she came down from the stairs, everyone praised her for being beautiful. It was the set of an porn movie. Obviously, in her previous life, she had watched a lot of small movies about uniforms.

Well, maybe it will be better when you get to school, after all, there are school uniforms there.Angela thought so after getting into the car with her mother. Then, Pu Guanshui, who replaced David as the driver and bodyguard, started the silver Rolls-Royce and started to look out. He wanted to praise it very much. One sentence, but the girl glared at her and swallowed it back. At the same time, she was a little puzzled, when did the little aunt's eyes have such power?

The car was quickly outside Beverly High School, and then—passed, and kept going.Angela looked at Beverly High School passing by the car window with regret. When she heard her father tell her to study high school in Beverly Hills, she always thought it would be here. After all, many stars in Hollywood have also She has studied here, such as Angelina Jolie, but she forgot that her family obviously would not agree to her going to a public high school, so the school she wanted to study was Weber High School near Beverly High School.

This school covers about 70 acres and provides teaching for grades 9 to 12. One of the interesting things about it is that it is a relatively independent co-educational school, which means that there are two relatively independent schools in the same school— —California Weber School for Boys and Vivian Weber School for Girls, which combine the advantages of separate schools for boys and girls and joint schools, making it a unique learning environment, and this is what girls are most satisfied with.

"Well, although American high school life is rich and colorful, but don't be too outrageous, I don't want to be a realistic version of "Mean Girls"!" Angela muttered through the car window, looking at the already visible baroque roof said.