Chinese entertainment for engineering students

"Are you going to work? You're not worried about the movie at all." Wang Fei is helping Wang Xu tear the fried dough sticks into soy milk, while Wang Xu is frying eggs. Recently, Wang Fei likes fried eggs, the kind with candy hearts. .

Well, actually Wang Fei doesn't like eating fried eggs that much. Even if she does, she won't like them every day. The key is that Wang Xu recently made a new kind of pot.

The material department has recently developed a new type of nanocarbon material, but I don’t know what it can do.

Wang Xu tried to use this kind of thing for growth coating. After many experiments, many metals could not be plated and failed. However, he finally got a stainless steel sample with a surface coating that adhered extremely firmly.

Wang Xu didn't know what this thing could be used for, so he asked someone to help him make a wok out of stainless steel, and then coated it with carbon nanomaterials. It looked dark, but it was a very ideal one. non-stick pan.

Then he took it home and used it to fry eggs. As a result, Wang Fei ate a lot more eggs, which made Wang Fei dumbfounded.

However, it is said that a large shipyard in Shanghai seems to be very interested in this treatment method. This kind of coating can hardly adhere to any other substances, and even paint cannot be applied.

They asked for some for experiments, and planned to see if they could prevent marine life from adhering. After all, this material was not really expensive, and it might save a lot of maintenance costs when used to build the bottom of a ship.

Many nanomaterials are not only difficult to produce, but also very troublesome to use and process because their properties are so special.

For example, the carbon nanomaterial developed by the materials department has excellent hydrophobic, oleophobic, and dust-repellent properties. But the problem is that it barely adheres to the surface of anything else, which makes it impossible to use its properties at all.

Anyway, Wang Xu and the others have experimented with many materials and methods, but it is difficult to make this material adhere to the surface of other materials. Only by using a derivative method of the growth method can this thing be plated on some materials.

Anyway, some research has been done. This is the daily life of the materials department. Many things have good properties, but they are really difficult to put into practical use. Either the environmental requirements are too harsh, or the processing is too difficult, or the cost is too high, and all kinds of problems. Restricting the marketization of most new materials.

Wang Xu and the others have been tinkering with this material for several months. The only thing they can use now is the pot in his hand. Except that it looks a little dark, the rest is ideal. At least dry burning has not caused any smearing. The layers peel off and it's really non-sticky, not sticky at all.

But the problem now is that the main component of this thing is carbon, and if it is used at high temperatures all day long, you have to worry about its oxidation problem. Now let’s see how long it will take for this thing to undergo relatively large-scale oxidation. At that time, the non-stick property of this pot will be gone.

It can be said that this is another failed attempt, but if it can persist for a period of time, it means that this thing is probably of some use.

Of course, using a pot to do experiments is a bit ridiculous, but who knows that Wang Xu is an engineering student? What he likes most is to make things that are not ordinary, using the highest quality materials to make the most common things. For example, he uses a deck The kitchen knife made of steel was made by a level 6 blacksmith. It cuts vegetables with ease, which is a pleasure.

By the way, when was the last time he chopped vegetables?

"It's so delicious." Wang Xu likes the fried dough sticks soaked in soy milk the most. Wang Feilao said he was blinded by the fact that they fried them so crispy. But Wang Xu said that he likes the texture. Who doesn't have a weird taste?

"You really don't pay attention to the box office?" Wang Fei asked. The weekend has passed, and the box office for the first weekend should be out. This is an important indicator.

"Don't worry, Tang Yun has already told me that the base price is 20 million. Her T-shirts and other items are almost out of stock. With this sales volume, the box office is not far behind. Don't you know that?" Wang Xu ate with a sigh. While soaking the fried dough sticks in soy milk, my mouth felt a little unclear.

"That's not as reliable as hearing the numbers. This is my first movie with a female protagonist." Wang Fei rarely cared about her career. Really, her previous roles in movies and TV shows were almost a joke.

The Nine Difficulties in The Deer and the Cauldron are very funny, especially the blushing look while holding the pillar is so funny.

Don't tell me, Wang Fei is usually not very good at joking, but she can really let go when it comes to acting. This is actually a kind of ability. Many actors cannot cross this threshold, especially the so-called idol actors.

It is said that a queen like Wang Fei is even more so, but she just acted it, and she acted very well. She played a middle-aged and elderly woman with a certain resemblance. This is something Wang Xu has never seen in his previous life. .

Well, Wang Fei has been too different in this life, but she can no longer look at people with the same old eyes. It's rare for someone to care about their career, so Wang Xu shouldn't hurry up and take care of it.

Now that Wang Xu's phone can make international long distance calls, the call was made directly to Henry, who is also the person in charge of publicity for this film. This person's abilities are quite comprehensive and cannot be summed up by just one producer.

After chatting in English for a while, Wang Xu shrugged at Wang Fei and said: "Thursday is only night time, 5.3 million US dollars, Friday is 8.5 million, and the third day is 13.4 million. It is expected to be a little less today, they haven't even reached Monday yet.

There are only 2,200 theaters showing it now, and the number will increase to 3,300 next Monday. Everyone is very optimistic about this movie. There are so many good movies this year, but in this period, we are unique. "

"27.2 million? Including today's, 40 million in 4 days. Haha, I am also the heroine of a super blockbuster. Let's see how Sister Mei brags in front of me in the future." Wang Fei smiled happily, danced, and hugged Wang Xu hard relative.

This is how people are, the harder things are to get, the easier it is to make people happy. She has won so many music awards, but she is not very happy, but the box office data only makes her so happy.

However, according to Wang Xu's understanding of her, he might be more happy to be proud in front of his friends, which is probably more effective than those dollar figures.

Of course, this data is enough to make her excited. This film is not going to be fully released from the beginning. When we see the effect next week, there will naturally be more screenings. It shouldn't be a big problem to get another 40 million. At the end, it will be 2,000. Ten thousand means over 100 million.

This is just an ugly country. You can imagine the box office rankings this year.

This may be the highest box office achieved by an Asian filmmaker. Wang Xu does not know the statistics in this area, but I believe that New Line will provide various statistics. After all, they will be releasing Little Days and Bangguo soon. It’s theater time.

The news from Xiangjiang arrived a little later. Wang Xu had already gone to work before he received a page from Wang Jinghua. In the first week of Xiangjiang, the total box office was 22 million, and it currently ranks second in the year, ahead of this year's number one God of Gamblers II. The difference is only 2 million.

Wang Xu felt that mainly mainland actors affected the film's attendance, but this was not a problem. They would accept what Chou Guo praised in his childhood.

Wang Xu is really not worried about the sales of his film in his childhood. Just his and Wang Fei's faces are enough to win a high box office in his childhood, but he doesn't know whether there are more male viewers or female viewers.

However, Wang Xu believes that Wang Fei must be very happy. She is at home today. I believe she will get the news before he does. She must be having fun there. It is really pleasant to have a heartless daughter-in-law.

Wang Xu’s motorcycles seemed to have a more joyful meaning. Wang Xu would soon receive a new customized motorcycle. New Line contacted Harley-Davidson and sold the trademark of the flying motorcycle in the film for half a million dollars. , well, that’s right, Harley-Davis flying motorcycles.

Wang Xu also shot a close-up, which is one of the few advertisements in this film.

Another thing is that the shape and trademark of the phone were sold to Motorola for US$1 million. Now they are the most famous in the mobile phone industry.

Wang Xu estimated that Robert must have felt that he had made a loss now. When he was selling advertisements, he probably didn't expect it to be such a big hit. Forget about motorcycles, they didn't appear often.

But the mobile phone is a key prop, especially the handsome shape that unfolds with one press. Wang Xu has applied for a patent, which can be produced and sold directly. Even the patent only sold 1 million, which is really a bit of a loss.

But to be honest, Wang Xu didn't pay much attention to this aspect at the time. It wasn't until the filming of the movie started that Robert told him about selling advertisements, so he made do with a few and didn't pay much attention to it. As for Wang Xu's own clothes, advertising, doesn’t that give them a share?

It is inevitable that this is the first time a film will be filmed, and all kinds of flaws are inevitable, and I believe New Line has no idea how much it will sell. After all, it all stars Asians. Speaking of which, they may have been holding on to the idea that if it doesn't sell well, they will just start filming. It's a Chinese version of Gan Chou, but they have the rights to remake it.

This kind of purely commercial game will not make Wang Xu feel bad. On the contrary, he thinks it is normal.

Sitting in front of the computer, Wang Xu looked at Rotten Tomatoes.

The Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB of the past were not fully-functional websites like those of later generations. To be precise, their things at this time were basically public welfare websites with news groups, fixed web pages, and some simple search functions. They were not really commercialized. operation.

They all turned to the GIT committee for help, and GIT invested a sum of funds respectively, and helped them find a technical team. They used the technology on GIT to re-modify the website structure, and then re-launched the product.

At present, these two websites can be said to be the largest movie databases on the Internet, but in fact, they didn't even use databases before. They just used a bunch of huge files. Just think about the search speed.

Anyway, with the support of GIT, these two public welfare movie websites have truly developed smoothly, started commercial operations, and opened up the ability to evaluate online for the first time.

It means adding stars, entering reviews, and has the function of film critic certification.

In comparison, IMDB has more complete information and more film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, there are more general public and the popularity is higher.

In fact, this all happened while Wang Xu was filming the movie. Wang Xu didn't pay attention at first. It was only when he was sorting out emails later that he discovered that these two later famous movie evaluation websites were actually products supported by GIT.

Then, he noticed that his film had a page on it even before it was finished. Many people left messages expressing their expectations. However, given that the proportion of the entire Internet population in this era is still very low, Wang Xu just said cautious optimism.

But now, everything has settled, the movie has been released, and he can seriously read the reviews on the Internet. He hasn't surfed the Internet for a long time, and today he decided to surf.

Now it's called surfing the Internet. The word comes from "surfing the internet." Baidu explains that it vividly describes the process of browsing web pages, which feels like surfing.

However, as someone who has experienced it, Wang Xu said responsibly that the word is indeed very vivid, but it does not mean that it is very refreshing, but that it is like surfing. You need to paddle for a long time, then play for more than ten seconds, and then have to paddle again. A half-day process.

In this era, most people use dial-up Internet access. As far as the download speed of that web page is concerned, it is impossible to be happy. Just click and wait.

There is a joke that says that the icon of the commonly used browser IE is an earth.

A beginner follows the instructions of an experienced netizen, clicks on a link, and then nothing happens. just ask:

"Why nothing has changed."

"See that globe icon? If it's spinning, it means it's working. You just have to wait."

"When?"

"Wait until the earth stops spinning."

Well, that's about it. Click and wait. When the earth stops rotating, the web page will be displayed. This is the Internet at the moment, mostly text, with only a few pictures, and mostly low resolution.

The browser Wang Xu uses will not wait until the earth stops rotating, because he is not using IE, nor is it Netscape or Navigator, which have just been launched.

It's Firefox, which he open sourced himself. The English name is Firefox. The icon is a cartoon little fox head. When working, his eyes will move around.

What? Why is your fox so crudely drawn? Because the icons at the moment are only 32X32 pixels and can only be used in 16 colors. They are too complicated to draw.

In fact, COS supports higher resolution icons, but other machines on the Internet do not support it, so the only choice is backward compatibility.

Not to mention Wang Xu's painful process of surfing the Internet. Although he doesn't need any dial-up, the total bandwidth of the education network accessing Chou Country is only one megabyte, so he can't expect any speed.

After the little fox's eyes turned countless times, Wang Xu finally saw the result he wanted to see.

The IMDB overall score is 9.2, a magical score. This film in the previous life had a very high score. Unexpectedly, Wang Xu made this film five years in advance, and it really shocked people even more.

The freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes is as high as 95%, which makes Wang Xu even feel unreal.

Of course, it is also related to the fact that the film has just been released, and the people who are reviewing it are people who have not yet recovered from the shock. As time goes by, the ratings are expected to decline.

Most of the user reviews are positive, and no detailed analysis posts have appeared yet. Professional film critics have already suffered some consequences, but they are very few in number. Most of them are the reactions and evaluations of ordinary viewers.

This is also in line with Wang Xu's expectations. Professional film critics rarely comment on such websites. Newspaper columns are their battlefield.

"I just watched this movie, and I thought I should write a review, but suddenly I felt like I didn't understand it. I may need to watch it again before writing. I will simply write down my impressions first, without any professional analysis.

Theme: A rare virtual world type in science fiction. Except for a few science fiction novels, it has not been seen in movies so far. It is very groundbreaking.

Director: The young director, who is just starting out, has presented a rare masterpiece with a clear structure and clear shots, and there is almost no sense of unfamiliarity.

Actor: The heroine is impressive. The last two lines of tears and the micro-expressions at the corners of the mouth are very well executed. This is far beyond the level that a singer can achieve. Several literary scenes are remarkable, if there are not too many fighting scenes. , and could even compete for Best Actress.

Special Effects: Perfect special effects, I can hardly see any flaws, believe me, I really tried hard to find them.

Story: A decent, complete story, but no special surprises.

Connotation: This is why I say that I need to watch it again. I feel that there are some things that I did not capture, so I will wait for this part of the evaluation.

Overall rating, 9 stars”

"A qualified popcorn movie with a tight plot from beginning to end, but that's all. Since it didn't bore me to the point of going to the bathroom, 6 stars."

"The best science fiction movie, perfect, ten stars."

"An incredible science fiction movie. I am a scientific researcher and have been paying attention to this movie since it was open sourced on GIT. When it was released today, I immediately went to watch this movie.

I have to say that this is a movie that is worth the money. It can satisfy all your fantasies about the original manuscript. I never thought that the main actors who sing can actually perform such a perfect movie.

Ten stars, it perfectly expresses almost all my fantasies about this story, it’s so dreamy. "

"A great science fiction movie with a novel setting, excellent special effects, and exciting fights. It's a good popcorn movie, but it lacks some humanistic connotations.

Also, isn't this an ugly Chinese movie? Why are all the team members Asian? 8 stars. "

Comment: "Racist"

"A shocking movie, not only the special effects, the action is gorgeous and beautiful, the male protagonist is breathtakingly handsome, and the female protagonist is as beautiful as a fairy, ten stars."

Comment: "I agree with the ten stars above, but I think he reversed the hero and heroine."

Comment: "I agree with the ten stars. I think the heroine is just the opposite."

Comment: "No, the male protagonist is the opposite. Ten stars."

Comments: "OMG look what you are talking about. Ten stars"

Comment: "Did I come to the wrong forum? Ten stars"

Comment: "You're right, they're insane. Ten stars."

"..."

This is the Internet, chaotic, noisy, but real. Especially in the early days of the Internet era, everyone was actually very cautious about what they said, as if they had a natural responsibility.

Wang Xu suddenly felt a sense of intimacy. It had been a long time since he had seen this kind of purely online communication. I really miss it. According to normal history, it will take several years for all of this to happen.

But through Wang Xu's hard work over the past two years, he successfully brought all this to this world several years ahead of schedule.

Although it is still very slow and laggy, and the server's response speed is obviously not real-time, and it takes a few minutes for the latest posted content to appear, the familiarity still makes Wang Xu feel tears in his eyes.

Wang Xu, a butterfly, has never felt that his existence has such a huge impact on the world as at this moment.

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(See you tomorrow)