Reverse Rebirth 1990

Chapter 505 517 [Clown]

The scene of the celebration banquet---
For Song Zhichao——
"You are not only a clown, but also a nasty guy! A Chinese, a Chinese businessman who only knows how to be opportunistic! In the eyes of us Japanese, you are just a Hong Kong guy who is a little clever and got lucky! As for the music, What do you know, this allusion is just for him!" The vicious and sarcastic voice echoed at the banquet.

Seeing their boss being humiliated in public like this, Luo Bachen, Bi Wenfeng and Qi Wanda's faces were extremely ugly.

Jin Jiu and Niu Xiong were immediately angry, they stepped forward left and right, passed Song Zhichao, and were about to go up to him and hit him hard.

Song Zhichao reached out to stop them, shook his head, looked at his opponent, and said nothing.

At this time, the group of people who broke in suddenly caused a commotion at the scene.

After all, this is Beverly Hills, and the person who initiated this celebration banquet was the famous Hollywood King Michael Jackson. Who is so bold that he dared to come here?

"Who are you, this is a private place, how can you break in?" Mike asked loudly, not knowing each other.

"Who am I?" The five short men smiled proudly, and the person next to him replied, "This is Mr. Nakao Kimura, the president of Sony Headquarters in Los Angeles, and the one next to him is the CEO of Sony Entertainment, USA." Mr. Tiff." The Japanese standing next to Nakao Kimura introduced triumphantly in English, "As for me, you can call me Tanaka-kun, and I am also one of the heads of Sony Electronics."

At this time, Steve, the big-nosed president of Sony Entertainment, spoke, emphasizing that he was very arrogant: "Dear Mike, you should know that our Sony Entertainment has Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Records Entertainment, and it is precisely our The record company seems to have signed a long-term contract with you --- as a partner, how can we not come to your celebration party this time?" After finishing speaking, Steve with the big nose clapped his hands, and the people around him seemed to be carrying Something came forward, covered with a black curtain, about half the height of a person, and I didn't know what it was.

"This is a gift Mr. Kimura brought you from Japan to celebrate Mike's success in your concert—Mike, open it and have a look!" Steve motioned, and before Mike could answer, someone had already stepped forward to help remove the black The cloth was uncovered, and I saw that it was a pair of "armor" from the Warring States period of Japan --- the whole body is black, the black iron face, and the horns of the devil. It looks very ferocious, but to many Americans, it feels full of power and mystery.

"How about it, do you still like this gift? This is the black tiger armor used by the famous military general Takeda Shingen during the Warring States period in Japan. Of course, it is a high-quality imitation. The real armor is our national treasure in Japan. ..." Nakao Kimura said triumphantly, "But even a pair of imitation armor is precious, it represents invincibility, bravery and loyalty!"

Mike: "..."

He was a little overwhelmed by the sudden change.

You know, Sony Entertainment in the United States is a super-powerful existence-how huge is it?More than half of the Hollywood superstars at the scene have more or less had a cooperative relationship with Sony, including Mike himself.

It can be said that no matter who offends Sony, there will be absolutely no good fruit in the future.

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In the late 80s, after Sony Electronics suffered a disastrous defeat in the video record competition, Akio Morita believed that it was necessary to combine the most high-end hardware with the most cutting-edge content in order to master the market. On September 1989, 9, under the leadership of Akio Morita, Sony Japan spent a huge sum of 25 billion U.S. dollars to successively acquire the Columbia Film and Music Department, which has the symbols of the goddess of the torch and the unicorn, making it a subsidiary of Sony Electronics. .

Under the background of time and space at that time, Japan's economy grew substantially, establishing its status as the world's second largest economy, while the U.S. economy was sluggish; due to Japan's defeat by the United States in World War II, many Japanese For the sake of national self-esteem, companies frantically acquired American companies, but many American companies were powerless to fight back.Among them, Japan's Mitsubishi Group bought the landmark Rockefeller Building in New York and Sony Sony bought Columbia Tristar Films at a sky-high price of 60 billion U.S. dollars, creating the largest overseas mergers and acquisitions in Japan at that time, which was regarded by the Americans as the Japanese invasion of the United States .However, this Tsubaki acquisition with the highest amount in Japanese history also became the company with the highest loss in Japanese history. In the late 1980s, the bubble economy crisis began to erupt in Japan, and Sony's film business group also lost money for several years due to poor box office, which became the main obstacle to Sony's profitability at that time.

But even if it is the biggest "loser" of Sony Corporation, Sony Entertainment in the United States is still very powerful in Hollywood. Among them, Mike signed a ten-year contract with Sony Records, and this also led to the future of Sony and Sony. Mike had great conflicts, and finally became exhausted physically and mentally, and died young.

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Logically speaking, since Michael Jackson is a signed artist of Sony Records, he should have heard of this President Steve, but in fact, most of Mike's signings are handled by his own agent. How did he come forward, so he is not too familiar with this Steve, but he only knows the name, but he did not expect that today he would take the initiative to come to the door and send a "gift".

Of course Mike understood what that meant.

Sure enough, under the suggestion of Nakao Kimura at this time, the big-nosed Steve smiled slightly and said coldly: "Oh, dear Mike, do you know the meaning of bravery and loyalty I just said? Bravery may be very clear to you, What about loyalty?"

Obviously there is something to be said.

"If you remember well, you, Mike, signed a perennial agreement with our Sony Records. Your records, including your concert recordings, should be given priority to our Sony—but in fact?" Steve slightly Staring at Michael Jackson sarcastically.

That's right, Mike is very popular and very good, but a contract is a contract, no matter how popular you are, you must act according to the contract.

Michael Jackson has been popular for so long, but he has never been ridiculed like this—let alone being attacked so hard in front of so many people.

Seeing that Michael Jackson was extremely embarrassed, a voice said at this time: "May I stand up and say a few words?"

Steve was secretly feeling happy that he could make the famous Mike King of the United States so miserable. This kind of record is guaranteed to be in the headlines tomorrow. He didn't expect someone to speak suddenly, and he said without looking back: "Who are you?"

"Oh, I'm the clown you just mentioned—" a voice said very gently.

(End of this chapter)