King of Hollywood

"Welcome to Pixar Studios, Ed." As soon as Adrian arrived at the door of Pixar Studios, Jobs came out to greet him, along with two other people. A fat one looks very rich, a thin one has a beard, and the three interesting ones all wear glasses, and their heights are almost the same, making them very interesting.

After Jobs' introduction, Adrian knew that the rich man wearing a plaid shirt and fat shorts was John Last, the chief creative officer of Pixar; The middle-aged man is Ed Kamal, Pixar's technical director.

"Nice to meet you." Adrian smiled and shook hands with them one by one. These two guys who will be called "the heart and soul of Pixar" in the future still look relatively young.

"Let's talk as we walk." Jobs made a gesture of invitation at this time, and four men and a woman walked inside.

The current Pixar studio is still very humble, and it seems to be a good scale, but in some respects it may not even be as good as some small studios. Every workspace appears disorganized, with all kinds of items - private and public - strewn all over the place, and the only thing worthy of credit is at least maintaining the most basic cleanliness.

The employees are always discussing issues in one go, and no one can be persuaded by constant arguing. Also, sometimes two people use one computer, for God's sake, Jobs made personal computers. In addition to these, you can also see things that cannot be seen in other companies or studios, such as——

"Hey, those in front, please step aside" A voice shouted from behind, Adrian turned around to look, and then pulled Charlize to the wall, while Jobs and the three of them were also doing Same action.

"Thank you." The young man who was speeding down the aisle on a skateboard smiled and passed in front of Adrian and the others.

"Here, everyone is more casual, and we don't want to frame everyone with too many rules," Kamal explained.

"I can tell." Adrian nodded noncommittally.

At this time, another round-faced employee ran up to Luster waving a sketch: "John, what's going on with you?"

"What's the matter, Andrew?" Last took the sketch he handed over in confusion

"That's not what I told you at the beginning. Here, here, and here don't match the original setting." Andrew looked a little annoyed, "What are you doing, John? If this is the case, it's better to submit all the original paintings Set it up for me"

"Okay, okay, may I apologize?" Last also saw what was wrong, and said in such a good-tempered manner.

"This is Andrew Stanton, a very good animator and programmer." Kamol took this opportunity to introduce.

The young man named Andrew found out that there were still guests, and immediately extended his hand to greet Kamal when he introduced Adrian, but his attention was obviously on the animation, he said a few words to express his welcome, and then looked at him again. last.

"About this issue, Andrew, can we talk about it later?" Last said finally, "Of course, if there are several mistakes here and the same mistakes, you can completely modify them according to your opinion."

"Thank you, then that's it." Andrew said and left without looking back.

"Our employees here have no distinction between superiors and subordinates, which can improve work efficiency." Kamal continued to explain.

"It can be seen." Adrian said still noncommittal.

After visiting the studio, a few people came to the meeting room, and Kamal and Last took turns to introduce the history of Pixar and the situation in recent years. By the way, they also played several animated short films made before, such as " "Little Tin Soldier" and "Jumping Lantern", Adrian also took this opportunity to make a few jokes to narrow the distance.

For example, after the broadcast of "Jumping Light", he intentionally showed a contemplative look, pointed at the screen and asked Luster seriously: "John, can you tell me, is the desk lamp in the movie father or mother?"

Rust was stunned for a moment, then laughed and replied, "It's all right, it's just a child."

Then both Jobs and Kamal laughed. There is an allusion here. When Pixar's first short film "Jumping Lights" was released, a well-known professor in the field of computer graphics knew about it just after the film was screened. John Last wanted to ask him a question. At that time, although Rast had accumulated a lot of production experience, it was the first time to direct an animated film after all, and it was an animated film, so he suddenly became extremely nervous, because in his opinion, there were too many techniques in this short film. Mistakes and deficiencies, if the other party asks him technical questions, such as which data are calculated incorrectly, he really doesn't know how to answer them. But what he never expected was that the computer expert asked with a serious face: "Is that desk lamp in your video your father or mother?"

That's right, it was the question Adrian asked just now, so several people laughed, and the atmosphere became more harmonious because of this. Adrian also took this opportunity to secretly tell the other party that he already knew about Pixar.

"Thank you for your warm hospitality. I have to admit that I have gained a lot this time." Before leaving, Adrian said to the three important people, and then gave Jobs a wink. car.

"I already have some ideas, and I will give you an answer as soon as possible." Adrian said to him, with a calm face and no other expression on his face. After the other party expressed his understanding, he shook hands with him and said goodbye to the car.

Although it is not perfect, this is indeed the Pixar he wants. However, Rust and Kamal seem to be enthusiastic, but they don't seem to be very happy to change bosses. They hide this emotion very well, but Adrian I still saw it.

Think about it, too. Jobs supported them in their most difficult time, and has supported them until now. He understands computers, technology and their dreams. If it were replaced by someone else, God knows what Pixar would become. Of course, Adrianna's noncommittal attitude was also one of the reasons, but he had to. He didn't want Jobs to see anything from his expression, and then sit back and raise the price.

It doesn't matter, just find an opportunity to have a good talk with them in the future, anyway, I won't interfere with them, as long as Ruster and Kamal are here... Oh, and Andrew Stanton. Adrian thought so, glanced at Charlize who was sitting quietly beside him, and suddenly asked, "Charlie, what do you think of Pixar?"

"Me?" Charlize raised her eyebrows in surprise. She has kept a low profile since she arrived at the Pixar studio, and like all assistants, she made herself transparent when the boss was discussing things.

"Yes, tell me your opinion, I believe you should observe more carefully." Adrian smiled slightly.

Charlize was not too polite, and after a few seconds to sort out her thoughts, she said, "Because I don't know much about many things, and the time you gave to collect information is too short, so I just said it superficially." Let me tell you how I feel. Their technical strength should be good, otherwise they wouldn’t be praised by many people and won so many awards, so what they need now is a feature-length animation that can fully demonstrate their strength.”

"Excellent." Adrian clapped his hands lightly twice, and had to admit that Charlize was indeed very smart, otherwise she would not have achieved that achievement in memory. In this way, it seems good to arrange a different life for her?

"Have you ever thought about acting in a movie, Charlie?" Adrian asked suddenly.

"Being in a movie?" Charlize looked at Adrian inexplicably, she didn't understand why the topic suddenly jumped from Pixar to acting in a movie.

"Yeah, you are so beautiful and so smart, as long as I'm here, you can become a big star." Adrian said with a smile, his tone was full of temptation, "It won't even win the Oscar for Best Actress. It's difficult."

Charlize was slightly moved at first, but after Adrian said the following words, his expression immediately became vigilant, and his body leaned back slightly, as if asking you what conspiracy you have.

"I'm serious, Charlie, you have all the ingredients to be a big star." Adrian said, reaching out and hanging on her face, regardless of Glover still driving in front.

"Thank you, but let's avoid it." Charlize refused with a smirk, her gray-green eyes shining, and told Adrian clearly: Don't try to control me

Adrian immediately put on a "sad" expression: "Oh, you know, Charlie..."

"About Steve Jobs, I have a question," Charlize changed the topic before he could continue, "Although the data shows that he invested a lot in Pixar, compared to the investment in NeXT computer company But it is far from enough, does this mean that he does not attach great importance to Pixar, and if you want to acquire it, you may be able to work hard on it.”

"I want to say one more thing, Charlie, you are outstanding." Adrian said after a few seconds of silence, although he knew this, but at that time because he had the advantage of "precognition", and Charlize was completely She made such an inference based on the information in hand. Although there may be other factors, this alone is enough to show how smart she is.

Then, Adrian fell into thinking, but what he was thinking about was not how to lower the price, what he was thinking about was because of Charlize’s words, he thought of the difficult decision that he had thought about before: how to acquire Pixar ?

This should be a very simple matter, just spend tens of millions to buy it from Jobs, and he also said, as long as the price is right. But Adrian had another plan in mind, which was to inject 10 million yuan and share Pixar's equity equally with Jobs.

Of course, for many people, if they fancy something and it is important to their own development, they definitely want to hold it all in their own hands. Adrian thought so too, though he wasn't sure about one thing: How much of a role did Pixar's success play in Jobs' return to Apple? ()