Chapter 637: Charlie's True Identity

"Charlie's Angels not only provided fans with a hot pink visual feast, but also left us with a lot of interesting hidden details. We can also see a completely different from the TV series from the whole film. The characters and world settings can be imagined, this is the ambitious producer who is laying the groundwork for the sequel.

"While fans of the series were raving about whether the black figure in the film's final Easter egg who flies the propeller plane is the new James Bond, entangled in Penelope Cruz's Lucienne. Whether Baker has an Electra complex, when the young geeks are busy studying the real and complex exhaustive algorithm at the end of the film, perhaps many people overlooked a very secret detail."

"Three minutes into the film, Morgan Freeman's liaison John 'blackmails' Lucine seems to say casually: 'Give you a minute to drive to the Malibu or I'll take you and these pictures Let's hand it over to the police together.' Then, after watching the whole film, we couldn't see any details about the Malibu, nor did the film explain why John asked Lucene to drive the Buick to the Malibu, After investigation, the real Malibu City does not have the household number, so this very abrupt conversation seems to be a redundant plot that is completely useless at first glance."

"But is this really the case? As we all know, the plot of "Charlie's Angels" is very rigorous, and the producers are even more refined in terms of details, even the program code entered by the talented girl Jill Monroe in the final plot, It is said to have been written by Steve Mitnick, CTO of Yahoo Networks. So, according to this line of thinking, there is absolutely no pointless dialogue in the most important opening stage of the film."

"After much searching by reporters in this magazine, we finally discovered the 'real face' of the Malibu. Perhaps many readers have noticed the striking shell-shaped villa photo in the illustration in this article, and made relevant guesses. That's right, The so-called Malibu. It is Eric Williams' luxury private manor in Malibu. According to clues provided by many insiders, although the resident number of the sharp corner manor is not a number, Eric Williams The Jiaojiao Manor has been called the number more than once, and we have also found the most intuitive evidence. In a project document of the architectural design company responsible for the Jiaojiao Manor project, the code name for the 'Free City' villa project is No."

"We will not discuss why Selena Gartler, played by Kate Beckinsale, allows herself to indulge herself in the brutal and deadly fights in the underground boxing ring, and do not go after Selena and her former partner. What kind of changes have been encountered, these behind-the-scenes stories are likely to be the plots that may appear in the prequels or the side stories. Of course, it is to meet his boss, although this mysterious person does not reveal his true colors, but according to this logic, John's purpose of letting Lucini drive to the 'fictitious' number has been explained. At least , In this film, the identity of the owner of the number is undoubtedly suggesting that Charlie Townsend is behind the detective company who did not appear in the whole film. And according to the 'number' that does exist in the real world, it is not difficult for us to find out. The ubiquitous Charlie Townsend in the movie is undoubtedly the personification of Eric Williams in Charlie's Angels.

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"Perhaps Eric Williams, who wrote the Charlie's Angels movie, set up this little plot on a whim, but when we turn our attention to today's Hollywood, many people are surprised to find that six years ago The young teenager who made a big hit with "Home Alone", like you are already like the ubiquitous Charlie Townsend in "Charlie's Angels", has an influence throughout most of Hollywood, and this influence is even more in this summer's film. It was the best performance.”

"Starting at the end of May, all the box-office hits "Saving Private Ryan," "True Lies," "The Lion King," and "Charlie's Angels," whether produced or not by Firefly Group, have been released. More or less with the personal imprint of Eric Williams. And the upcoming "Dumb and Dumber 2" and "Men in Black" two summer closing masterpieces are also from Eric Williams The hand of the new Hollywood tycoon has already covered Firefly, MGM, Columbia and Fox among the seven major studios, and this horror has more influence than almost any one in Hollywood's 100-year history Movie tycoon. Because this miraculous young tycoon is currently under the age of twenty-five, it is not difficult to make an assumption. Perhaps one day, Eric Williams will completely unify Hollywood and become a worthy of the name. The King of Hollywood."

Eric put this article, which had been reprinted by many newspapers just two days after its appearance, on his desk, shook his head and smiled, and continued to read other materials.

After a week of screening, "Charlie's Angels" easily won more than ten thousand dollars at the box office. Although the box office is not comparable to the previous weeks of "The Mummy", "Saving Private Ryan" and other films, the buzz created by this female action blockbuster is far greater than last month's several top-selling films. ?Look at a book??w?ww?·1?k?an?sh?u?·

The reason why "Charlie's Angels" is low at the box office is not that the summer craze has passed, and it is definitely not affected by factors such as film layout or film quality. Just like Buffett said at the screening that he did not understand some plots, because the film involves a lot of misunderstandings. The high-tech plots that the elderly and children can't understand, "Charlie's Angels" did not attract audiences of all ages, but these cool high-tech plots made the main audience of this movie gather in 14 to 28-year-old teen audience, and has created extraordinary influence in this group.

Moreover, because of its high reputation and hot topic, the box office of "Charlie's Angels" on the second Sunday not only did not fall compared to the first week, but instead experienced the first reverse drop in the box office in the summer of 1994. The box office statistics agency predicts that "Charlie's Angels" The box office of Charlie's Angels is likely to exceed 10,000 US dollars in the next week, and there is almost no difficulty in breaking 100 million in two weeks.

"Charlie's Angels" is also very popular in some overseas box office markets released at the same time as North America, especially in Japan, which is released at the same time. As a country where comics are popularized, Selena, a cartoon-like bandaged girl in the film, is full of image. , which directly makes a lot of Japanese manga otaku boil. The film's week in Japan even came close to North America, reaching $10,000. And then in the "Charlie's Angels" that went on sale in Japan, several of Selena's live-action figures have been continuously out of stock. In just one week, Kate, who was originally unknown, became the most popular western actress in Japan. A large number of cooperation and endorsement invitations have flown to ibsp; with the excellent performance of "Charlie's Angels", MGM has finally escaped the brink of bankruptcy. European investors, who are expected to get a good return, are also rejoicing. After the weekly box office of "Charlie's Angels" was released, the two sides couldn't wait to contact Eric, hoping to start preparations for the sequel as soon as possible.

at the same time. Two other companies, completely unrelated to the film industry, have also reaped unexpected benefits.

Within a week of the film's release, Yahoo's online mailbox users increased by 10,000 within seven days due to the strong advertising effect of the film. These users are basically new Internet users with very high gold content. The daily average number of visits to Yahoo's portal also saw a sharp rise in a short period of time.

On July 1, the instant messaging software officially launched by Yahoo Network reached a terrifying exponential growth rate. Taking advantage of the popularity of "Charlie's Angels", this very fashionable and avant-garde remote chat software in this era will be available within a week. The number of users exceeded 10,000. Although sufficient estimates and preparations were made in advance, this time Yahoo still failed to successfully withstand the huge data flow pressure caused by the surge in users. There was a brief server downtime on the evening of July 5th. event. Although it is inevitable to be ridiculed by several high-tech giants who are competing for the title of "the world's largest data processing center", it does not stop users' enthusiasm for use.

Another company that has benefited is undoubtedly Buick Motor Company.

The Buick sedan, which originally focused on business models and was not too popular with young people, more than doubled its sales within a week of the release of "Charlie's Angels" compared with the previous week. Except for the Buick Boulevard that appeared many times in the movie, Buick's The sales of several other models of Buick have seen a substantial increase. With the influence of "Charlie's Angels", Buick has not only opened up the young consumer market that has not been able to make progress, but also expected car sales in the second half of 1994. The amount will be increased by at least %.

It is worth mentioning that Buick is different from Lamborghini and Ferrari, which can only sell a few thousand units a year. In the 1980s, the global sales of this mid-range brand under the General Motors Group exceeded 10,000 units, and the annual sales reached tens of billions of dollars. Therefore, it is conceivable that the % increase in performance will bring Buick a huge additional profit. .

At first. Buick just read the line in the movie, "Don't you think Buick's 'Three Shields' logo is cool?", and reluctantly took out the 10,000 implantation fee. But after the film was released, the president of Buick Motors immediately contacted MGM, who was in charge of the film company, and said that they would spend an additional US$10,000 to jointly promote the film. This kind of treatment could only be enjoyed by the series in the past. Buick's competitors Ford, Chevrolet and even Japan's Toyota, Honda and other car brands also contacted the producers one after another in an attempt to win the exclusive brand implantation rights for the sequel to "Charlie's Angels".

The sound of knocking on the office door woke Eric from the ecstasy of reading the materials. After agreeing, the door was gently pushed open, Eric watched the female assistant in a professional suit walk in, smiled and raised the "Hollywood Reporter" that he had just read, and asked with a smile, "Kay Li, do you think I can unify Hollywood?"

"From the perspective of anti-monopoly law, this is impossible," Kelly said, holding a stack of documents and sitting down opposite Eric, "But from the perspective of miracles, it's not necessarily the case. Woolen cloth."

Eric said: "I heard it. You must be complimenting me with these words, instead of using me as a target like this article, right?"

Kelly showed a womanly intellectual smile and said, "Yeah, but this article has also helped Firefly a big favor. According to the forecast of the financial department, due to the merger, the Group's financial report for the first half of the year will need to be postponed until the beginning of next month. "This article has been given the same boost as the beautiful financial report, the impact of the overhaul of the hand-drawn animation division is now minimal, and the sale of all long-term bonds is expected to be completed by the end of the month."

Eric asked: "Speaking of this, what happened to Peter Schneider and Roy Disney?"

"I came here to tell you this," Kelly handed a document in her hand to Eric, and said, "This is the condition they put forward."

Eric opened the file and browsed it briefly. In addition to a series of expected requirements, such as greatly increasing the salary of the hand-drawn animation department staff and the department's budget, Peter Schneider and Roy Disney also requested to build a Disney animation equivalent to Pixar. Work parks and have the same power to operate alone as Pixar.

Closing the document, Eric said with a faint sarcasm on his face, "The salary of the employees will be doubled if they speak, and they have no intention of ending this matter immediately."

Kelly replied: "Since they have chosen to play with Ron Perelman, Ron Perelman also needs enough time to join the creditors."

"It just so happens that we need enough time to make arrangements," Eric said suddenly with a smile: "At this point, they can be considered their last contribution to Firefly."

Kelly felt a little sad for Peter Schneider and Roy Disney, especially Peter Schneider. The ability of this senior animation department is actually good. If the department reforms according to Eric's plan, it may be possible in the future. There is a chance to gain a higher position within the Firefly system. But now, even if the hand-painted animation department finds a new owner, once his behavior of eating inside and out is revealed, he will definitely be kicked out by the new owner, and Firefly has absolutely no obligation to conceal this matter for Peter Schneider.

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*ps: There are still two updates, and the next update will be later.

＊(To be continued.)

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