King of Hollywood

“Welcome to Pix Studio, Ed.” As soon as Adrian arrived at the Pix studio door, Jobs came out to greet him, along with two others. A fat one looks rich, a skinny moustache, all three interesting people with glasses, and the height is just as different, which is very interesting.

After Jobs' introduction, Adrian found out that the wealthy man in the flower plaid shirt and the fat underpants was John? Rust, Pix's chief creative officer; and Ed, a middle-aged man with a monochrome shirt and trousers with sandals on his feet? Camor, technical director of Pix.

“Nice to meet you.” Adrian smiled and shook hands with them, two guys in the future called "Pix's Core and Soul," who still look relatively young.

“Let's walk and talk.” Jobs sat in an inviting gesture and four men and one woman walked inside.

Pix studios are still small and seem to be of a good size, but in some ways they may not be as good as some small studios. Every workshop appears to be chaotic, with all sorts of items - private public - everywhere, and the only thing to be commended is the maintenance of at least the most basic clean environment.

Employees are always talking about problems, constantly arguing who persuades who not. And sometimes two people use a computer, for God's sake, Jobs is a personal computer. Besides that, you can see things that you can't see in other companies or studios, like...

“Hey, guys in front, make way." A voice shouted from behind, Adrian turned around and pulled Charlize to the wall, and Jobs and the three of them were doing the same thing.

“Thank you.” The guy on the skateboard flew down the aisle laughed and scraped past Adrian in front of them.

“Everyone here is more casual, and we don't want to frame you with too many frames," explains Carmel.

“See.” Adrian nodded.

At this point, another round-faced employee waved the script in front of Rust: "John, what's the matter with you? ”

“What's up, Andrew?” Rust took over the script he handed over.

“That's not what I was telling you, here, here, and here. It doesn't fit the original set.” Andrew looks a little annoyed. “What the hell are you doing, John? In that case, why don't you leave all the original paintings to me?"

“Okay, okay, I apologize, okay?” Rust also saw what the problem was, such a good temper said.

“This is Andrew? Stanton, great animator and programmer.” Camor took the opportunity to introduce.

The young man named Andrew discovered that there were other guests. He reached out to introduce Adrian at Camor, but his attention was obviously on the animation. He said two words to welcome him and then looked at Rust again.

“Andrew, can we talk about this a little later?” Laster concludes, “Of course, a few mistakes here, as well as the same mistakes, can be corrected exactly as you think. ”

“Thank you, so be it.” Andrew left without looking back.

“Our employees here do not have superiors or subordinates, so they can work more efficiently.” Kamal continues to explain.

“See.” Adrian remains indisputable.

After a tour of the studio, several people came to the conference room, where Camor and Rust took turns to introduce the history of Pix and the years, and, incidentally, played several previously made animated short films, such as Little Tin Soldier and Jump Light, which Adrian also took the opportunity to make a few jokes about.

After Jump Lights, for example, he deliberately showed a contemplative look, pointing to the image and asking Rust seriously: "John, can you tell me if that lamp in the movie is Dad or Mom? ”

Rust stunned and replied with a big smile: "No, it's just a kid. ”

And then Jobs and Carmel laughed, and there's a classic, when Pix's first short film, "Jump Lights," came out, and the film just came out, and a famous professor in the computer graphics field knew John? Rust wants to ask him a question. Although Rust had accumulated a lot of production experience at the time, he was still the first director of animated films, and animated films, so he became extremely nervous when he thought that there were too many technical errors and shortcomings in this short film. If the other party asked him technical questions, such as which data were miscalculated, he really didn't know how to answer them. But what never occurred to him was that the computer expert asked seriously, "Is that lamp in your movie Dad or Mom? ”

Yes, that's the question Adrian just asked, so several people laughed and the atmosphere was more harmonious. Adrian also took the opportunity to implicitly tell each other that he already knew Pix.

“Thank you for your hospitality, and I have to admit that this has been quite a reward.” Adrian said so to three important people on the verge of leaving, then gave Jobs a look, and a man Jobs would like to escort him to the car.

“I've got some ideas and will get back to you as soon as possible.” Adrian said to him that his face was calm and he had no other expression, and he shook his hand to say goodbye to him as soon as he understood.

It's not perfect, but it's really the Pix he wants, but Rust and Carmel seem enthusiastic, but they don't seem happy to change bosses, they hide the emotion very well, but Adrian sees it.

Think about it, Jobs supported them in their most difficult times, and he's always supported them until now, he understands computers, he understands technology, he understands their dreams, and God knows what it would be like to have Pix replaced with someone else. Of course, one of the reasons Adrian's attitude was always irreplaceable was because he had to, but he didn't want Jobs to see what he saw in his expression and start the price on the floor.

It doesn't matter, just find a chance to talk to them later, I won't interfere with them anyway, as long as Rust and Camor are here... Oh, and Andrew? Stanton. Adrian thought so, looking quietly at Charlize sitting next to him, and suddenly he said, "Charlie, what do you think of Pix? ”

“Me?” Charlize picked some unexpected eyebrows, keeping her low profile since arriving at the Pix studio and making herself transparent when the boss was negotiating like all the assistants.

“Yes, tell me what you think and believe you should observe it more carefully.” Adrian smiled.

Charlize was polite, and after taking a few seconds to sort out his thoughts, he said: "Because I don't know a lot of things, and you gave me too little time to gather information, I'm just going to say how I feel on the surface. Their technical prowess should still be good, otherwise they won't be praised by many people and won so many awards, so what they need now is a long animation that shows full strength. ”

“Excellent.” Adrian had to admit that Charlize was really smart or she wouldn't have achieved that in her memory. Doesn't it seem nice to arrange a different life for her?

“Have you ever wanted to be in a movie, Charlie?” Adrian suddenly asked.

“In a movie?” Charlize looked at Adrian somehow, and she didn't understand why the topic suddenly jumped from Pix to the movie.

“Yeah, you're so beautiful and so smart, so long as I'm around, you can totally be a big star.” Adrian smiled and said, "The tone is full of temptation," and it won't be difficult to get the best actress in Oscar. ”

Charlize had just begun to have a slight heartbeat, but after Adrian had said the words behind him, God became alert and his body leaned back slightly, as if to ask you what the plot was.

“I'm serious, Charlie, you have all the conditions to be a big star.” Adrian said, reaching out and hanging from her face, even though Grover was driving in front.

“Thank you, but forget it.” Charlize said no with a fake smile, his grey green eyes glistened, and he told Adrian, with no mistake: Don't try to control me.

Adrian immediately changed his “sad” expression: “Oh, you know, Charlie...”

“About Steve? Jobs, I have a question,” Without waiting for him to go on, Charlize turns the subject off, "and while the information suggests that he's invested a lot in Pix, it's far from investing enough in the next computer company, which indicates that he doesn't attach much importance to Pix, which you might be able to work on if you want to acquire. ”

“Again, Charlie, you're brilliant.” Adrian said so after a few seconds of silence, although he knew it, because he had the advantage of "predicting," and Charlize made that inference entirely on the basis of the information in his hand, which, although there might be other factors, was enough to show how smart she was.

And then Adrian got caught up in thinking, but he wasn't thinking about how to keep the price down, he was thinking about something that Charlize had thought about before: how to acquire Pix?

It should be a simple thing to buy from Jobs for tens of millions of dollars, he also said, as long as the price is right. But there's another plan in Adrian's mind, which is to invest 10 million, and Jobs splits Pix's equity equally.

Of course, for many people, if they see something and it's important to their development, they want to hold it all in their hands. Adrian thought the same thing, just one thing he wasn't sure about, that is, how well did Pix's success play in Jobs' return to Apple?

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