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Chapter 437 A Frenzy of Praise for the Anti-Penguin Alliance

Do you think China's aerospace industry is large but not strong?

The host, Jimmy, sounded slightly puzzled. He had prepared this question expecting Gu Bei to praise China Aerospace, but instead, he heard Gu Bei's somewhat derogatory evaluation of China Aerospace.

“That’s right. China Aerospace’s teacher is NASA, but the glorious period of NSAS was a long time ago. The system back then is not very suitable for the present era.”

Gu Bei spoke eloquently to the camera, displaying a certain air of public intellectualism, "I don't know if you've heard of a company called SpaceX. It, along with another company, took over NASA's rocket launch missions. I believe this kind of model is the future direction of aerospace development."

Commercial spaceflight?

Jimmy asked curiously.

Since the end of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the commercialization of spaceflight has been on the agenda, especially after Hillary Clinton, who once wanted to become an astronaut but was ultimately rejected by NASA, drastically cut NASA's budget.

However, this path is not easy, and so far there has been no significant progress.

"No, it's industrial aerospace!"

Gu Bei shook his head. "I believe that the future of spaceflight will be a highly industrialized industry. It will be as common as airplanes, and the cost of sending people into space will be reduced to an unimaginable level."

So the reason the female protagonist in Gravity was able to go to space after only a few months of training is because going to space was already a common occurrence at that time.

After a pause,

Gu Bei began to wildly praise NASA and SpaceX, taking the hype to the extreme: "NASA's decision to let SpaceX and another company take over rocket launch missions will be the beginning of this aerospace industrialization."

Whether they succeed or not doesn't matter, because they're already on the right path.

In fact, Gu Bei knew very well that there was no superior or inferior path between the two; the best path was the one that suited him best.

In the future, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation will describe itself as "large but not strong," which is actually a rather modest statement. After all, they are the only ones who brought back lunar soil from the moon, and North America wanted it but refused to give it to them.

However, the purpose of strategic deception is to make North America believe that they are very powerful, so let's give them a lot of hype.

Anyway, right now is the hottest topic for the left, things like globalization and aerospace industrialization are all seen as signs of their progress and the things they love to hear, so let's tell them that.

really,

Jimmy beamed with joy upon hearing this.

They probably consider Gu Bei to be one of the members of their leftist camp.

After all, Gu Bei's attributes are too deceptive, and people who see his experiences will instinctively think that Gu Bei is a member of the left-wing movement.

First of all, Gu Bei's profession is director, and he is a film director.

The biggest difference between film directors and television directors is that film directors are more advanced and better able to convey their ideas through their works.

Television dramas, on the other hand, need to appeal to the audience even more.
Furthermore, due to the regulations of the Directors Guild, each TV series director only has seven days for shooting and seven days for editing, which forces production companies to hire more TV series directors, and it is even normal to have one director per episode.

Therefore, we often hear of a movie that was poorly received back then, but became a classic many years later.

Such examples are very common in art films.
Even among commercial films, there are movies like Man of Steel that have experienced a reversal of public opinion.
It's because movies can be ahead of their time.

Such examples are rare in TV dramas, because TV dramas are usually closely connected with the times.

This is also why Hollywood is so heavily influenced by political correctness; the nature of work in Hollywood encourages its practitioners to have more progressive ideas.

Secondly, Gu Bei's second identity is that of a writer, specifically a young adult fiction writer who mainly writes novels for teenage girls.

The Wrong Star in Our Time and the Hunger Games trilogy are both closely related to current issues, which adds another layer of mystery to Gu Bei's identity.

Actually,
No one knew that Gu Bei didn't have many thoughts at all.

He simply wants to make money!

After the Jimmy Show ended, Gu Bei appeared on many more television programs. His strategy was to praise the cooperation between NASA and SpaceX without belittling China, making people feel that North America was the beacon of humanity!
After his spiel,
The controversy surrounding gravity has significantly decreased.

After all, there's not much to argue about regarding the concept of gravity itself.

The main reason is that many viewers believe that the Shenzhou spacecraft, the China Sky Survey Telescope, and Tiangong-1 in Gravity are all real-world objects.

They thought that China's aerospace industry had made rapid progress without their knowledge, and was much stronger than NASA.

Despite the effects of gravity, box office revenue continued to rise steadily.

The drop in North American box office revenue over the three-week weekend is unlikely to be as severe as the second week.

However, it still grossed $2400 million, with a drop of only about 30%, which is quite low for a commercial film.

Including the box office from the previous two weeks,

Gravity's North American box office also successfully surpassed $1.3 million.
This is a remarkable achievement for a space movie with a hard science fiction style.

The six major Hollywood studios have shown considerable interest in the results regarding gravity.

A production cost of $100 million is still considered an A-list production in this era, but it's no longer among the top-tier productions. The fact that it has already recouped its costs through North American box office alone is already a very successful project.

The key is,

The achievements of gravity in China are truly remarkable!

It grossed nearly 600 million in its first week, which, at the current exchange rate of 6.6, is about 90 million US dollars, 50% higher than its opening weekend box office in North America.

The success of Gravity has raised Hollywood's expectations for the Chinese film market even higher. After all, it proved that Avatar at the beginning of the year was not an accident, and that the Chinese film market is capable of accommodating a box office of $200 million.

and,

Gravity is a new model.
It's about using Hollywood technology to tell stories from other countries.
Compared to pure Hollywood blockbusters, this film effectively has two major domestic markets, thus significantly expanding its market size.

It's actually quite common for Hollywood to film stories from other countries.

Last year's Slumdog Millionaire, which competed with the artist Gu Bei, was a film like this. The Academy tends to favor this type of film when it comes to winning awards.
Previously, they mainly focused on art films, but the six major Hollywood studios already have a wealth of experience, and the same principle applies to commercial films.

Suddenly, Hollywood began to pay special attention to this type of project, and foreign directors and actors became popular. All six major studios hoped to replicate the Gravity project.

Gu Bei coldly watched the actions of the Hollywood Big Six.

He had no intention of getting involved, because it was bound to end in chaos!
Hollywood has always been arrogant; they adapt works entirely according to their own ideas, and countless works have become hybrids in their hands.

Just like the Dragon Ball adaptation from a couple of years ago,

The person they hired, Master Roshi, was none other than the Chinese superstar Chow Yun-fat.
What they brought out was a dish of movies whose name I didn't know.
This attempt to replicate gravity's effects will likely produce just how many terrible films. However, there's a silver lining: it provides some opportunities for foreign directors and actors who previously had limited work in Hollywood, and also generates some adaptation fees for intellectual property from other countries.

"President Gu, Zhou Hongyi says she wants to see you."

Weibo President Peng Shaobing contacted Gu Bei via a cross-border video call and told him some unexpected news.

"Why did he say he wanted to see me?"

Gu Bei asked with some curiosity.

He's been keeping a close eye on the battle between 365 and Tencent lately.

The struggle between the two sides has now entered a fierce stage.
Because of their long-standing involvement in the security field, 365 discovered a weakness of Tencent: the infringement of user privacy.

Chinese people have never really cared much about privacy. It's not that no one has tried to win over users with privacy, but users vote with their feet and prefer convenience to privacy.

But... the penguin doesn't know!
After all, the current internet is entirely copied from the North American internet.
China's leapfrog development in the mobile internet sector is not yet complete.
Therefore, North American users are very concerned about privacy, and Tencent also believes that Chinese users are very concerned about privacy.

365 exposed Tencent's long-standing pretense of respecting customers while secretly collecting user privacy data.

They even launched a tool called 'Privacy Protector' specifically designed to monitor Penguin's monitoring of user behavior and to remind users that Penguin is collecting their privacy.

This matter has sparked controversy on the internet.
After all, users don't care much about privacy.

But the experience of a penguin secretly collecting things is completely different from the experience of 365 constantly reminding you that the penguin is collecting things.

Gu Bei finally understood why the 3Q War would erupt so ugly so soon after. It was because Zhou Hongyi was really ruthless; she had completely exposed Tencent's old tricks!

365's privacy protector was released before National Day.
Gu Bei discovered this matter after returning to China.

So during the Gravity campaign, besides the promotional activities, I kept an eye on this matter, wanting to see when 365 and Tencent would have a bigger showdown.

After all, WeChat released version 1.0 in mid-September after two months of development. It was initially available on all platforms including iOS, Android, and Symbian, and is gradually gaining popularity among users.

beat!
The more intensely you fight, the better!
but,

Gu Bei didn't understand,
Why did Zhou Hongyi approach him when he was enjoying the gossip?
"Because Tencent sued him, saying that Zhou Hongyi's privacy protector was unfair competition, Zhou Hongyi seems to be a little scared and they are seeking support from the industry."

Peng Shaobing explained to Gu Bei.

"A lawsuit? When did that happen?"

Gu Bei asked with some confusion.

He felt like he had missed something in the story. The lawsuit between Tencent and 365 should have happened after the "choose one of two" situation, so why had it already happened?

"This afternoon, Tencent filed a lawsuit against 365 in court, claiming that 365 engaged in unfair competition and demanding that 365 issue an apology."

Peng Shaobing recounted to Gu Bei what had just happened that afternoon.

After a pause,

Peng Shaobing continued to Gu Bei, "By the way, I heard rumors in the industry that this time it's not just Tencent that's involved; it seems Tencent plans to invite Kingsoft, 365's rival, to join the battle. It looks like 365 has really hit Tencent where it hurts this time."

Is Junzi going to get involved too?

Gu Bei frowned.

In his previous life, he didn't know much about the 3Q War. Although Kingsoft had a great reputation, it was honestly not enough in the Internet age, so he really didn't know about this.

but,

Judging from the current situation,

The battle between 365 and Penguin has not yet reached its climax.

However, 365 has clearly found a weakness in Tencent, and Tencent is preparing to use legal means to force 365 to back down.

But is this possible?

Who is Zhou Hongyi? She's capable of developing anti-human software like 365, so she obviously won't give in so easily.

Moreover, when Zhou Hongyi saw that the penguin was starting to feel pain, instead of reflecting on whether she could beat the penguin, she would even intensify her efforts to target the penguin's weaknesses.

"Tsk tsk tsk, looks like there's going to be a good show!"

Gu Bei smiled.

Isn't this the moment he's been waiting for?

"President Gu, I'll go and refuse Zhou Hongyi now. Our Weibo is doing very well right now, and we really don't need to get involved in such troublesome things."

Hearing Gu Bei's teasing tone, Peng Shaobing assumed that Gu Bei intended to remain neutral and decided to end the video call to refuse Zhou Hongyi.

"Wait a moment."

Gu Bei stopped Peng Shaobing, "Do you think we need to get involved in this matter?"

Peng Shaobing was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

He noticed that Gu Bei's face showed interest, as if he didn't intend to avoid getting involved with 365 and Tencent.

After a pause,

He thought about it for a moment and said, "Actually... I think we should get involved, at least to help Zhou Hongyi."

"How to say?"

Gu Bei asked curiously.

He thought Peng Shaobing wouldn't want to get involved in this kind of thing!
"Because Tencent Weibo puts a lot of pressure on Weibo, they drive traffic through Penguin and Penguin Space, resulting in a large number of users participating in the interaction of Tencent Weibo, which is something that our Weibo cannot compare to."

Peng Shaobing gave a wry smile and explained, "I'm not saying that Weibo can't beat Tencent Weibo, but Tencent Weibo will greatly weaken the interactive atmosphere of our community, which is not good for Weibo's future development."

Therefore, when Tencent's overall corporate credibility is in crisis, we should indeed kick them while they're down and let Tencent Weibo suffer reputational damage along with Tencent. This would be beneficial to us!

"Anti-Penguin Alliance, huh?" Gu Bei smiled faintly. "Then we'll help Zhou Hongyi this time!"

(End of this chapter)