Chapter 331 Hackers Go into Battle
“This is ABC TV, and the much-anticipated “The Matrix: Reloaded” has just held its grand premiere.
The film's producer and previous director, Gilbert Jr., did not attend the premiere, but we can see that the scene was still star-studded..."
"It is reported that the action scenes in this film have been fully upgraded, and Keanu Reeves trained half a year in advance for this film.
In an interview, he said that his action scenes are much better than the previous one..."
As the sequel to the hit movie, "The Matrix: Reloaded" has undoubtedly attracted much attention. At the midnight show after the premiere, major cinemas were packed with countless hacker fans.
Because Yuen Woo-Ping no longer served as the action director of the film, James Gunn retained Yuen Woo-Ping's apprentice Tiger Chen.
Tiger Chen originally longed for the United States and had a good personal relationship with Keanu Reeves. He immediately parted ways with Yuan Heping and started his own business.
However, in terms of action scenes, although Tiger Chen learned from Yuan Heping, in this "The Matrix: Reloaded", he did not use the fancy kung fu of the previous film.
The moves used in this movie are similar to mixed martial arts, incorporating Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and other routines.
This routine looks fast and sharp from the camera, and is full of the aesthetics of power that is fast but never broken. At least it is like this in "The Matrix: Reloaded".
The reason for changing the action routine mode is also very simple. The trend caused by "The Matrix" has made the entire Hollywood follow the trend.
Nowadays, if any action movie does not have one or two action directors from Hong Kong Island, and does not perform a tiger-crane double act, the crew will be embarrassed to start filming.
As a result, a large number of nondescript action movies with kung fu elements gathered together, and the element of kung fu was soon played with, making the audience a little tired.
And when "The Matrix: Reloaded" was released, it was also loved by action movie lovers because it once again innovated the action mode.
At midnight, "The Matrix: Reloaded" surpassed the midnight box office of both "Lord of the Rings" films, taking in a box office of $9.15 million.
On the day of its premiere the next day, many film critics dismissed "The Matrix: Reloaded" as worthless. Even Roger Ebert, a big fan of Little Gilbert, said the film completely lost the essence of the first film.
All I know is banging and banging, and the philosophical speculation and religious thinking in the first part have all disappeared.
In fact, it’s not that it has disappeared, it’s just that it hasn’t been discussed too much and more energy has been given to action scenes and special effects scenes.
Gilbert Jr. had previously told James Gunn that if he took over the "Matrix" series, he would most likely be scolded, and now it's come true.
But James Gunn didn't look unhappy at all, because "The Matrix: Reloaded" opened with a box office of $23.325 million on its first day.
On the following two days, Saturday and Sunday, US$34.278 million and US$26.876 million were issued respectively.
Including the midnight box office, the film's first-week box office in North America reached US$93.629 million, and it undoubtedly won the weekly box office championship.
When "The Matrix: Reloaded" hit the theater market, little Gilbert also celebrated his thirty-first birthday.
Aunt Meryl's family came all the way from Los Angeles to celebrate little Gilbert's birthday at Melon Manor.
It was rare that all the women were here. Aunt Meryl felt a little magical when she saw these famous Hollywood actresses standing in front of her like a daughter-in-law meeting her parents-in-law.
After looking at it for a long time, Meryl shook her head helplessly and said to little Gilbert: "You are just like your father, both are playboys.
But there is one difference. You are much better than your father. "
The old man looked anxiously at the side: "What are you talking about? I'm very strong, okay? I dated Marilyn Monroe, I had dinner with Audrey Hepburn..."
"Tch," Meryl said disdainfully: "I heard that Marilyn Monroe almost bit you to pieces that night, and you're still here feeling so proud..."
The old man's face darkened: "Who did you listen to?"
"It has been spread for a long time. Do you think I don't know?"
The girls looked at the old man's face, and it seemed that it was indeed true, and then they couldn't help covering their mouths and snickering.
Naomi Watts had long since become a human spirit, and she quickly interrupted to prevent the two from continuing to bicker: "Today's chef was specially invited from China.
I heard that he is the state banquet chef over there and his cooking is very good. Let’s try it..."
It was indeed good. This chef looked like a Huaiyang cuisine chef, and little Gilbert knew several of the dishes he served.
There are crab meat and lion head, large boiled dry shreds, Wensi tofu, eight-treasure gourd duck, cherry meat, etc. Among them, glutinous rice and lotus root is a dessert that both Sijia and Ellie like to eat.
This birthday party was very private. After asking little Gilbert what he meant, Naomi Watts did not hold it with any fanfare, but just had a meal together as a family.
Therefore, Disney and Warner executives such as Robert Iger and Doug Walt, partners closely related to Gilbert Jr., only sent gifts and did not interrupt the joyful gathering of Gilbert's family.
Jobs also sent a gift, one of Apple's latest mobile phones, which is expected to be launched in the fall.
What Jobs meant was that little Gilbert knew a lot about electronic products and would evaluate this phone while using it.
When it comes to making mobile phones, Nokia is definitely the strongest one at the moment, with the largest sales volume.
After developing the MP3 business, retaining the Apple computer business, and preparing for the MP4 business, Jobs also wanted to enter the mobile phone business.
Because Gilbert Jr. mentioned to him that the future belongs to the era of smartphones, Jobs and his R&D department had already started pre-research on smartphones.
Nokia has also made the same move, but without clear direction on how to make smartphones, it is unknown whether Nokia can succeed or fail like its previous life.
Although Gilbert Jr. is Apple's second-largest individual shareholder, he does not control Apple. He has no decision-making power regarding Apple's operations.
But when it comes to watermelon's business, little Gilbert has a say.
Over the years since its establishment, watermelon has relied on its search engine and portal business to survive the cold winter of Internet companies and grow stronger.
Just in May, watermelon company executives submitted an acquisition plan to Gilbert Jr. Watermelon was preparing to acquire the company founded by Andy Rubin.
According to the report, Andy Rubin believes that the future mobile operating system will be the same as the PC operating system, and there is great potential.
So Andy Rubin formed his own team and established a company to develop a new smart mobile operating system.
However, limited by the current hardware performance of mobile phones, development has not been smooth.
Gilbert Jr. successfully approved the acquisition, and Andy Rubin and his team also joined Watermelon to be responsible for the development of mobile phone systems.
Little Gilbert got inspiration from his previous life and named the project Android.
In fact, the word Android appeared as early as in the science fiction novel "The Eve of the Future" published by French writer Lil Adam in 1886. He named a human-looking robot Android.
Little Gilbert also took the time to design a logo for Android, inspired by the graphic symbols on the men's and women's restroom doors.
Little Guibert drew a simple robot with a torso shaped like a tin can and two antennas on its head. Andy Rubin liked the logo very much. He and Gilbert talked several times about the future application direction of the Android system.
Little Gilbert's words were very inspiring to Andy Rubin, and he instantly treated Little Gilbert as a close friend.
Speaking of which, Andy Rubin used to be an engineer at Apple, but due to the turmoil at Apple, he left the company and now joins watermelon.
It is no secret that Watermelon develops mobile phone systems. Jobs was very dissatisfied with this because Apple was also developing its own mobile operating system.
So he quickly found little Gilbert and asked him what he thought.
Gilbert's explanation for this is simple: "Apple's system does not conflict with Android. Apple's system is used internally and is not authorized to external parties.
Android focuses on markets other than Apple systems, aiming to compete with Nokia and Motorola in the market. "
"So, the two companies are allies?" Jobs asked.
"Of course," little Gilbert looked enthusiastic: "Steve, we are partners, and of course I will not attack our partners."
"That's what I said," Jobs said after pondering for a while: "If possible, I hope to participate in this project."
"Okay," little Gilbert said without politeness: "You can exchange for Pixar shares..."
"..." Jobs was speechless for a while: "You should know that Disney has been in contact with me and plans to acquire Pixar Animation Studio.
I think I'd rather be a Disney shareholder. "
It is basically impossible for Disney to spend money to acquire people like Jobs, so Robert Iger's strategy is to exchange shares of equal value.
It is also because of the pending acquisition of Pixar Studios that Disney has been unable to go all-out at Melon Studios, leaving Warner to hold on tight.
Although Jobs was not very happy, the development of the Android system was still in progress, and I don't know whether it can replicate the glory of its previous life.
At the birthday party, little Gilbert also asked Ellie: "Ellie, what do you want to do, I will arrange it for you."
"Thank you, cousin," Ellie frowned and thought for a long time, "I want to be a famous female director like Sister Sophia."
"Oh, this is not easy, Ellie."
Little Gilbert patted Scarlett's troublesome little hand away and continued to talk to Ellie: "I remember that you went to Stanford University and studied business administration, which has nothing to do with movies."
Although Stanford is a world-renowned university, it is a private university after all, and Ellie’s credits when she graduated from high school were not enough to enter Stanford.
But this was not a problem for little Gilbert. He had a meal with several Stanford trustees, and Ellie successfully entered Stanford University and became a student at a prestigious school.
Next summer, Ellie will graduate from Stanford.
Ellie tilted her head and thought for a while, then acted coquettishly with little Gilbert: "Oh, cousin, isn't your good friend James Cameron also a truck driver? He can also be a director, and I can do it too."
"James Cameron is a super genius, can you compare with him?"
"Isn't this because of you? With your help, I think it's okay." Ellie hugged little Gilbert's arm and threw it away.
Aunt Meryl on the side couldn't stand it anymore: "Ellie, don't be ridiculous. Do you think it's easy to be a director? Why don't you see how tired your cousin is?
You should just be a white-collar worker. It’s great to go to work.”
"Yes," Cameron Diaz said with a wink, "I also dream of working as a white-collar worker. I have been taking MBA classes at Harvard recently."
Ellie disagreed: "Working is so boring. Being a director allows you to travel all over the world and travel at public expense."
"So you became a director just to travel at public expense?"
"Of course not, I want to be the first female director to win the Oscar for Best Director." Ellie said the big words without blushing at all.
"Oh, that's pretty loud." Little Gilbert said with a smile, "Well, now that you've decided, my cousin will let you give it a try and be an assistant director first."
Ellie looked expectantly: "Are you with your cousin?"
"No," little Gilbert shook his head slightly and said, "Go to Chris. You can learn a lot from him."
She didn't follow Little Gilbert, but at least she was in the group, and Ellie was still very happy.
Aunt Meryl complained: "It was originally arranged well, so just spoil Ellie!"
"It's okay," little Gilbert gave a reassuring look and whispered to Meryl, "It's me, and Ellie will change if she finds that she is not suitable after working for a while."
Hearing what little Gilbert said, Meryl felt a lot more relieved.
After the birthday party, the old man went directly to China for vacation. In fact, only little Gilbert and the old man knew that they went there to avoid certain people.
The old man ran very quickly, because Marvell's people really found out a lot about the old man.
The old man used to be young, energetic, impatient, and unable to control his lower body, so he got into a lot of trouble. It doesn't actually matter, there are so many people in Hollywood who can't control their lower bodies.
However, some high-ranking figures obviously have the restraint and moral integrity to avoid such a thing.
So the old man successfully cuckolded several high-ranking figures. No matter whether it is the East or the West, no normal man can tolerate cuckolding.
Of course, if there is a psychopath or a cuckold plot, then that is a different matter.
And it just so happens that this kind of psychological perversion is not uncommon in Hollywood, and there are many cases of couples cuckolding each other.
The bad thing about the old man is that he seduces other people's wives, but there is no cuckold plot, and he has offended several big shots.
Of course, if it is just because of this reason, although the old man will be retaliated, he will not quit Hollywood.
The real reason is that at that time, several projects that the old man was responsible for were abandoned, but the old man himself made a lot of money, which made those investors want to kill the old man.
Now the old and new grudges were settled together, and the old man had to announce his withdrawal from Hollywood under tremendous pressure.
This is his own story told by the old man and little Gilbert, and it looks magical.
But one question is, if it was just because of this, how could those people use these old stories of adulthood to blackmail the old man?
So there must be something else that the old man is hiding, or deliberately forgetting to say.
It doesn't matter, what matters is that little Gilbert really knows that others can't do anything to him, and is ready to do something to his family.
(End of chapter)