hollywood melon man

Chapter 331: Hackers
"This is ABC, and the much-anticipated premiere of The Matrix Reloaded has just taken place.

The film's producer and previous director Gilbert Jr. did not attend the premiere, but we can see that the scene is still star-studded..."

“It is reported that the action scenes in this film have been fully upgraded, and Keanu Reeves trained for this film half a year in advance.

In an interview, he said that his action scenes were much better than the previous one..."

As the sequel to the hit movie, "The Matrix Reloaded" has undoubtedly attracted much attention. At the midnight show after the premiere, major cinemas were packed with countless hacker fans.

Because Yuen Woo-ping was no longer the action director of the film, James Gunn kept Yuen Woo-ping's apprentice Tiger Chan.

Tiger Chan had always longed to go to the United States and had a good personal relationship with Keanu Reeves. He immediately parted ways with Yuen Woo-ping and set up his own company.

However, in terms of action scenes, although Tiger Chan learned from Yuen Woo-ping, he did not use any fancy kung fu in "The Matrix Reloaded".

The moves used in this movie are similar to mixed martial arts, combining Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and other routines.

This routine looks fast and sharp from the camera, full of the power aesthetic that only speed can break through, at least that's the case in "The Matrix Reloaded".

The reason for changing the action routine mode is very simple. The trend brought about by "The Matrix" has made the whole Hollywood follow suit.

Nowadays, if any action movie doesn't have one or two action directors from Hong Kong Island, the crew would feel embarrassed to start filming without performing some tiger-crane double-form moves.

As a result, a large number of weird action movies with kung fu elements appeared, and soon the kung fu element was played with so much that the audience became aesthetically fatigued.

When "The Matrix Reloaded" was released, it was also loved by action movie fans because it once again innovated the action mode.

In the midnight show, "The Matrix Reloaded" surpassed the midnight show box office of the two "Lord of the Rings" films and earned 915 million US dollars.

On the day of the premiere, many critics criticized The Matrix Reloaded as worthless. Even Roger Ebert, a die-hard fan of Gilbert Jr., said that the film completely lost the essence of the first film.

It's all about fighting and bombing. The philosophical thinking and religious reflections in the first part have disappeared.

In fact, it has not disappeared, it's just that there has not been too much discussion about it, and more energy has been given to action scenes and special effects scenes.

Gilbert Jr. had previously told James Gunn that if he took over "The Matrix" series, he would most likely be scolded, and now it has come true.

But James Gunn didn't seem unhappy at all, because "The Matrix Reloaded" grossed $2332.5 million on its first day.

On the following Saturday and Sunday, the winnings were US$3427.8 million and US$2687.6 million respectively.

Including the midnight show box office, the film's North American box office in its first week reached 9362.9 million US dollars, unsurprisingly winning the weekly box office championship.

When "The Matrix Reloaded" was dominating the theater market, Gilbert Jr. also celebrated his 31st birthday.

Aunt Meryl and her family came all the way from Los Angeles, and everyone celebrated little Gilbert's birthday together at the Cantaloupe Manor.

It was a rare occasion that all the women were there, and Aunt Meryl felt it was magical to see these famous Hollywood actresses in various poses standing in front of her like a young wife meeting her parents-in-law.

After looking at it for a long time, Meryl shook her head helplessly and said to little Gilbert: "You are just like your father, both are playboys.

But there is one difference, you are much better than your father."

The old man got angry: "What are you talking about? I'm very strong, okay? I dated Marilyn Monroe, and I had dinner with Audrey Hepburn..."

"Tsk," Meryl said disdainfully, "I heard that Marilyn Monroe almost bit you off that night, and you're still gloating over it..."

The old man's face darkened: "Who told you that?"

"It's been spread a long time ago, do you think I don't know?"

The girls looked at the old man's expression and it seemed to be true, and they couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh.

Naomi Watts had long been a shrewd person, and she quickly interrupted to prevent the two from continuing to bicker: "Today's chef is specially invited from China by me.

I heard that he is the state banquet chef there, and his dishes are very good, let’s try them…”

It was indeed good. This chef was obviously an expert in Huaiyang cuisine, and little Gilbert recognised several of the dishes he served.

There are crab meat lion head, boiled dried shredded vegetables, Wensi tofu, eight-treasure gourd duck, cherry meat, etc. Among them, glutinous rice lotus root is a dessert, which Scarlett and Ellie like very much.

This birthday party was very private. After asking Gilbert Jr.'s opinion, Naomi Watts did not hold a grand ceremony. The family just had a meal together.

So the Disney and Warner executives, including Robert Iger and Doug Walter, who were close partners to Gilbert Jr., only sent gifts and did not disturb the happy gathering of Gilbert Jr.'s family.

Jobs also sent a gift, Apple's latest mobile phone, which is expected to be launched in the fall.

What Jobs meant was that young Gilbert was very knowledgeable about electronic products, and while using it, he would review the phone.

When it comes to making mobile phones, Nokia is definitely the strongest at the moment, with the highest sales volume.

After developing the MP3 business, maintaining Apple's computer business, and preparing for the MP4 business, Jobs also wanted to enter the mobile phone business.

Because Gilbert Jr. had mentioned to him that the future belonged to the era of smartphones, Jobs and the R&D department had already begun preliminary research on smartphones.

Nokia has also taken the same action, but without a clear direction on how to make smartphones, it is unknown whether Nokia can succeed or fail like its previous life.

Although Gilbert Jr. is the second largest individual shareholder of Apple, he does not control the company and has no decision-making power over Apple's operations.

But when it comes to watermelon's business, little Gilbert has a lot of say.

Over the years since its establishment, Watermelon has survived the cold winter of Internet companies and grown stronger by relying on its search engine and portal website businesses.

Just in May, WaterMelon’s top management submitted an acquisition plan to Gilbert Jr., intending to acquire the company founded by Andy Rubin.

According to the report, Andy Rubin believes that mobile phone operating systems will have great potential in the future, just like PC operating systems.

So Andy Rubin formed his own team, established a company, and prepared to develop a new smart mobile operating system.

However, due to the limitations of the current hardware performance of mobile phones, development has not been smooth.

Gilbert Jr. successfully approved the acquisition, and Andy Rubin and his team also joined Watermelon to be responsible for the development of mobile phone systems.

Young Gilbert got inspiration from his previous life and named this project Android.

In fact, the word Android first appeared in the science fiction novel "Eve of the Future" published by French writer Lior Adam in 1886. He named the human-like robot Android.

Gilbert also took the time to design a logo for Android, inspired by the graphic symbols on men's and women's restroom doors.

Gilbert Jr. drew a simple robot with a tin can-shaped torso and two antennas on its head. Andy Rubin liked the logo very much and talked with Gilbert Jr. several times about the future application direction of the Android system.

Gilbert Jr.'s words were very inspiring to Andy Rubin, and he instantly treated Gilbert Jr. as a close friend.

By the way, Andy Rubin used to be an engineer at Apple, but due to Apple's turmoil, he left the company and now joined Watermelon.

It was no secret that Watermelon was developing a mobile phone system. Jobs was very dissatisfied with this because Apple was also developing its own mobile phone operating system.

So he quickly found little Gilbert and asked him what he thought.

Gilbert's explanation is simple: "Apple's system does not conflict with Android. Apple's system is for internal use and is not licensed to others.

Android focuses on markets outside of the Apple system, with the goal of competing with Nokia and Motorola for the market."

"So the two companies are allies?" Jobs asked.

"Of course," Gilbert Jr. seemed very enthusiastic: "Steve, we are partners. Of course I will not attack my partners."

"That being said," Jobs said after a pause, "If possible, I would like to invest in this project."

"Okay," Gilbert Jr. said, "You can exchange your Pixar shares for..."

“…” Jobs was speechless for a while: “You should know that Disney has been in contact with me and plans to acquire Pixar Animation Studios.

I think I would be happier to be a Disney shareholder.”

It is basically impossible for Disney to spend money to acquire someone like Jobs, so Robert Iger's strategy is to exchange him for equivalent shares.

Also because of the acquisition of Pixar Studios, Disney has not been able to go all-in on Melon Studios, allowing Warner to keep a tight grip on it.

Although Jobs was not very happy, the development of the Android system is still in progress. It is unknown whether it can replicate the glory of the previous life.

At the birthday party, Gilbert Jr. also asked Ellie: "Ellie, what do you want to do? I will arrange it for you."

"Thank you, cousin." Ellie frowned and thought for a long time before saying, "I want to be a famous female director like Sister Sofia."

"Oh, this is not easy, Ellie."

Little Gilbert slapped Scarlett's disruptive hand away and continued to talk to Ellie, "I remember you went to Stanford University to study business administration, which has nothing to do with movies."

Although Stanford is a world-renowned university, it is a private university after all, and the credits that Ellie had when she graduated from high school were not enough to enter Stanford.

But this did not pose a problem for young Gilbert. He invited several Stanford board members to have a meal, and Ellie successfully entered Stanford University and became a student of this prestigious university.

Next summer, Ellie will graduate from Stanford.

Ellie tilted her head and thought for a while, then she started to act coquettishly with little Gilbert: "Hey, cousin, isn't your good friend James Cameron also a truck driver? He is also a director, so I can do the same."

"James Cameron is a super genius. Can you compare with him?"

"Don't I have you? With your help, I think it's okay." Ellie hugged little Gilbert's arm and shook it.

Aunt Meryl couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Ally, stop messing around. You think being a director is easy? Don't you see how exhausted your cousin is?
It would be better to just be a white-collar worker and go to work."

"Yeah," Cameron Diaz said with a wink, "I also dream of being a white-collar worker. I've been taking MBA classes at Harvard recently."

Ellie disagreed: "Working is so boring. Being a director allows me to travel around the world and travel at my own expense."

"So you became a director just to travel on public funds?"

"Of course not, I want to be the first female director to win the Oscar for Best Director." Ellie boasted without blushing at all.

"Wow, you're still so arrogant." Little Gilbert laughed and said, "Well, since you've made up your mind, I'll let you give it a try and be an assistant director first."

Ellie looked expectant: "With my cousin?"

"No," Little Gilbert shook his head gently and said, "Go to Chris's place. You can learn a lot from him."

Although she didn't follow little Gilbert, at least she was part of the group, so Ellie was still very happy.

Aunt Meryl complained, "It was all arranged well, but you just spoiled Ellie!"

"It's okay, it's okay," Little Gilbert gave Meryl a reassuring look and whispered to her, "I'm here, and if Ellie finds that she's not suitable for the job after a while, she'll change."

After hearing what little Gilbert said, Meryl felt much more relieved.

After the birthday party, the old man went straight to China for vacation. In fact, only Gilbert and the old man knew that he went there to avoid certain people.

The old man ran away very timely, because Marvel's people actually found out a lot about the old man.

The old man used to be young and hot-tempered, and he couldn't control his lower body, so he got into a lot of trouble. It doesn't matter, there are many people in Hollywood who can't control their lower body.

However, some bigwigs in the upper echelons obviously have self-control and moral integrity, so such things will not happen.

So the old man successfully cuckolded several high-ranking figures. Cuckolding is something that no normal man can tolerate, whether in the East or the West.

Of course, if the person is a psychopath or has a cuckold complex, that’s a different matter.

Coincidentally, this kind of psychopath is quite common in Hollywood, and there are many cases of couples cheating on each other.

The old man's bad thing is that he hooked up with other people's wives, but they were not cuckolded. This time he offended several important people.

Of course, if it was just for this reason, the old man would be retaliated against, but he would not quit Hollywood.

The real reason was that at that time several projects that the old man was responsible for all failed, but the old man himself made a lot of money, which made those investors want to kill the old man.

Now with all the new and old grudges settled together, the old man had to announce his withdrawal from Hollywood under tremendous pressure.

This is the story the old man and little Gilbert tell about himself. It looks magical.

But one question is, if that’s the only reason, how can those people use these old stories to threaten the old man?
So there must be something that the old man concealed or deliberately forgot to say.

None of this matters. What matters is that little Gilbert knows that since they can’t deal with him, they are going to deal with his family.

(End of this chapter)