The Goddess Shines on America

"Mom, I'm back."

As soon as Fazi walked into the house, he heard the sound of his mother washing dishes in the kitchen.

"Ah, Fazi, welcome home."

Tomoko walked to the living room with a dish full of dish soap, saw her daughter's flushed face, and said lovingly, "Is it hard today? How about that big man who wants to train you?\

,""Well, I see you."

Fazi took off the scarf, and Tomoko hurried back to the kitchen: "Mom, have you ever heard the name Alice-Wang?"

"Alice... the king?"

Tomoko, who was about to turn on the faucet, froze for a moment: "Foreigner? Wang? Let me think about it, a girl of Chinese descent?"

"Well, and she's just a girl my age."

As if he had discovered Solomon's treasure and wanted to share it with his family, before he could take off his coat, he hurriedly said, "I don't know what kind of business she is in, she is so rich. Mom, you know that the Crystal Mall is right for you." Bar?"

Tomoko laughed and said, "Of course I know, that's the top shopping mall in Ginza, and they just asked you to meet there. What's the matter? She took you in for shopping?"

Fazi hung the shirt he had taken off on the hanger in the entrance, and exclaimed, "She invited me to eat sushi on the 19th floor. It's such a high-end restaurant. Then, the president of that restaurant actually came to her personally. Only then did I realize that this Alice actually bought the entire Crystal Mall!"

The sound of washing dishes just now stopped immediately, and it took a full three seconds before Tomoko remembered to turn off the faucet.

"You, what did you say?"

She walked quickly into the living room, still holding the freshly washed dishes: "A whole building? Bought them all!?"

"Yes, yes."

Alice bought the commercial building, and she was very proud of her method. She straightened her head and said: "A whole building with more than 20 floors, and it's still on a land like Ginza, I'm afraid it will cost tens of billions." Bar?"

Sophon nodded viciously, his heart pounding.

Tens of billions of yen, what is this concept?

That night, Noriko's father, Sannejo Sakai, was meditating at the dinner table. Beside him, his biological daughter Fazi and his second wife Tomoko are waiting for his answer.

"Alice Wang, I have some impression of this name."

His fingers tapped on the desktop: "A few days ago, the "Asahi Shimbun" made a report on the current situation of the computer network industry in the United States, and mentioned a company called Cisco Systems. I remember... the founder of this company seems to be named The name."

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and Tomoko said in disbelief, "Impossible, isn't it? It's a big company, right? How could a girl of the same age as our Fazi be the founder of that kind of big company?"

"It's really unbelievable, but if they have the same name and surname, they are all Chinese-American girls, and they are so rich. Tell me, how likely is it to be a coincidence?"

The whole family knows that Sangenjo, after leaving his original career, aspires to make a living in the financial industry, and the family was discussing moving to Yamanashi not long ago. But last year, if the mother and daughter asked this question, he would probably say something.

Now that the topic is here, Sangencheng is really busy. He didn't eat any food, and immediately went to the locker at home to search. Since he decided to work in the financial industry, he has developed the habit of collecting a large number of newspapers for emergencies, and now is the most appropriate time.

"Look at your dad, how serious he is."

Sitting at the dining table, Tomoko gently stroked Fazi's head.

Fazi didn't say a word.

Yes, the current mother is her stepmother.

Noriko's father was originally a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, and he was also the leader of the "Sakai-gumi" under the Yamaguchi-gumi, so his status was not low. As for Fazi's biological mother, she was divorced when she was only two years old because of unbearable domestic violence, and died unexpectedly a few years later. And as early as six years old, Fazi didn't even grow up with his father.

Now, after being expelled from the Yamaguchi-gumi, are you finally going to "learn it well"?

Seeing Sangencheng carefully reviewing the newspaper, she took a sip of miso soup noncommittally for what her stepmother said.

"Sure enough... I knew it."

After a while, holding a few specific newspapers, Sangencheng walked back to the dining table in amazement: "The founder of Cisco Systems, Alice Wang, and two professors of computer science who resigned from Stanford University the year before, jointly founded this company. The company. Then, she is still a shareholder of Microsoft Corporation, and the Win....0 system was developed by her alone! Win...dos1.0? Operating system? What is this..."

Not to mention the surprise of his parents, Fazi glanced at it and saw that there was a newspaper on a certain layer of a thick stack of newspapers that was dated three days ago.

"Let me take a look at this..."

She pulled it out easily.

Entertainment section, about the latest Hollywood movies released.

A terrifying and ferocious monster, and a strong white woman with a girl in her arms.

"Alien 2?"

A new film is about to have its global premiere. It is a thriller science fiction film made by DreamWorks, a new Hollywood film company that has only been established for two years, with a huge investment of tens of millions. "Alien" directed by Leigh Scott finally ushered in a sequel after seven years!

In fact, as early as the end of last year, in major mainstream media in Japan, a large-scale publicity introduction has been overwhelmingly launched. In addition to the simplest posters and newspaper introductions, the producer provided a 90-second trailer for major TV media, and this started as early as November last year!

It's completely belated, and I didn't find out until I saw this news suddenly. It seems that the name Alice Wang has long been famous all over Japan in this set of propaganda?

But it seems not.

The film's director is named James Cameron, but that's enough of a name for DreamWorks to make a big splash. The director and screenwriter of the popular sci-fi movie released last year, "The Terminator", with a cost of only eight million US dollars, created a full ten times the high box office, and this is only his second film since his debut. Film. It can be said that the existence of such a rookie king is enough to attract the public's expectations for the new film.

But that's it, this movie also has elements that are icing on the cake!

According to the film's overwhelming promotional content, it is said that this movie used computers on a large scale to produce various special visual effects!

Of course, any simple rhetoric is not as shocking as putting the results in front of your eyes, and the producers are clearly aware of this truth.

So, back in the trailer, when it aired, they threw in a terrific moment!

A heavy chariot burning with flames, with its powerful horsepower, slammed through layers of metal and cement waste, and rushed from the mine gate to the surface of the asteroid. Immediately afterwards, a group of ferocious and bloody arthropod-shaped alien creatures rushed out of it one after another, but they were blasted into dross by a fully automatic heavy machine gun on the chariot with extremely fierce firepower!

It's simply shocking!

Since the trailer was aired as early as November, but the expected release date is in January of the following year, the film studio shrewdly took aim at this time slot, perhaps because they were confident in the effect of the trailer, they Taking advantage of the opportunity, a videotape sale of the trailer was launched!

I don't know how many people in the industry have commented in the newspapers, stating that DreamWorks is simply taking advantage of the money. It is only 90 seconds to plant something, and it is still sold at a unit price of five dollars! ?

Earn five dollars too! ?

Fortunately, it can really make money!

It is indeed because the effect of the trailer is so wonderful that many viewers, especially those parents with young children or college students, have been sending snowflake-like order letters to DreamWorks for several months. . Interested people have even made statistics, just in the US market in the past few months, the trailer video tape has sold a full one million copies!

Yes, five million dollars is so easy to come by, after all, no one will be stingy with spending a mere five dollars. For a while, looking at the whole of Hollywood, the bosses of many small and medium-sized film companies were red-eyed. After all, the total sales of five million US dollars was already equivalent to the box office of many low-cost small movies!

After seeing the hot sale of this picture, many of the media regulars who had made jokes about DreamWorks and Roger Lawrence obediently shut their mouths.

On December 31st last year, because it happened to be the year-end summary, a special commentator from the Los Angeles Times made a special summary of the sales of this video tape.

"This is a myth that cannot be replicated, because no film company can produce such excellent visual effects, and this movie is also a sequel to "Alien". So, even if other producers want to learn from DreamWorks and try to make money by selling the videotapes of the trailer...my suggestion is that you should pay more attention."

Of course, the "Los Angeles Times" did not have the opportunity to see it, but as one of the largest newspapers in the United States, the "Asahi Shimbun" actually reprinted it.

"Maybe that was Alice's idea?"

Fazi looked at the newspaper and said to the parents beside him: "I think she seems to be very good at investing, otherwise, she wouldn't come to Japan suddenly, she is a real estate company, and she is also an office. Bought it!"

Sangencheng nodded, took the newspaper from Fazi, and said with great interest: "Father still has to work, Fazi, since this movie is about to be released, do you want to find some friends to watch it together? For example, the one next door to us Michiko?"

Fazi thought for a while, and suddenly giggled.