Chapter 150 The Wife Killing Case That Ruined Several Movies
Unfortunately, Roland thought too much.
When Sony learned that Roland wanted them to invite Yoshiki Okamoto and Noriko Funamizu to create a game together, their own family knew about their own affairs, and they directly expressed their helplessness—they had been wooing Capcom for a long time, but they Still waiting and watching, not only that, if the core producer of "Street Fighter" is hired to make another fighting game, Capcom will agree to it, there will be ghosts!
Isn’t it like eating a meal and having nothing to do, making a **** and beating yourself?
Do you think the market share of "Street Fighter" is too high?
Still feel that the opponent of "Mortal Kombat", which was born in 1992, is simply not enough to watch?
Regardless of what they think, at least they can't do it at all when it comes to borrowing people.
In this way, letting experts support with engineering machines is already the greatest help they can give.
Faced with this situation, Roland and the Big Three of Blizzard have nothing to regret.
If no one comes, just throw yourself up. Can a living person be suffocated to death by urine?
Although the Big Three of Blizzard really can't do ACT, but they will learn from "Street Fighter" and "Mortal Kombat", right? The game mode is divided into story and battle. The story mode is based on the plot of the comics. The villains are also arranged according to the order of appearance. As for the battle, they will definitely not be able to do the six attack keys of "Street Fighter", which are "light, medium and heavy". Come out, but it doesn't matter, we are superheroes based on comics, wouldn't it be enough to change to "The King of Fighters" with the blue and quick throw skills?
Since it is certain that Liu Jialiang can’t achieve the striking feeling of the martial arts line, it’s like Xu old monster learning to pursue dazzling and elegant!
If you don’t have the real sense of punching to the flesh, then make up for it with gorgeous combos!
As for balance...
The most lazy way is to first set the damage of the same button skill of each character to be the same, and then fine-tune it.
Since "The King of Fighters" hadn't been released yet, Roland stayed in Blizzard's office for a whole week.
After all the R&D personnel understood the skill flow he described, they, who had never seen this kind of gameplay before, were all silent. No one knew whether the game developed according to Roland's idea would be successful.
Of course, starting from scratch is a gambling process, and what really confuses them is the description of skills. "If according to your idea, we have to produce a lot of skills for each character?"
"According to the number of eight characters in "Street Fighter", one character has four ordinary small skills and two major skills, and here are forty-eight skills. The skill pictures alone seem to have reached the capacity of the storage cassette. , if you are adding textures for the story mode, your idea may not be able to come true.”
"Six skills for one character? That's too much." Facing such an inquiry, Roland shook his head directly, "Three common small skills are enough, and then add 'light' and 'heavy' punches. The attack method of the legs, the skill released by one energy is relatively cool, and the final skill released by three energies is absolutely cool, as for the storage problem, it depends on Sony."
When in doubt, throw the blame away... Bah! It is indecision to find an expert!
Roland only knew that letting the Blizzard Big Three make traditional fighting games would be a huge hit, but all he could do was to provide these professionals with another way of thinking.
To put it bluntly, in terms of games, he is just a player who has played enough. As for Jeff Kaplan, he has gone from being an unemployed Internet mob to a Blizzard designer, working out a copy of Blackstone Depths, and leading the team. He couldn't kill the Titans project and then use the leftovers from Titans to make Overwatch.
After all, he is a model of a king with a strong mouth, and Roland—
In terms of game production, it is at best a mouthful.
After witnessing with my own eyes the behavior of the big boss who not only beeps, but also blames others, the team members who participated in the meeting in the curved office all laughed knowingly.
They know that Roland is not the kind of guy who is an outsider leading an expert. He is just offering an idea. The specific way to do it is still up to the production team to study and decide. If it is feasible, then research and develop it.
As a result, when Roland left, the game plan had not yet been finalized.
But he is not worried, the cost of developing games these days is far less exaggerated than later generations.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t think about it for a while, just give them the money, no matter how much you burn, you can’t spend three to five million yuan a year.
...
After handing over the known difficulties to those who can use love to generate electricity, time is also passing.
On the morning of June 13, Roland, who turned on the TV to listen to the news as usual, heard a piece of news.
Late at night on June 12, a murder occurred in a mansion area in west Los Angeles.
People found two dead people in front of a house. The two died in a miserable state, covered in blood, and their throats were cut by a sharp weapon.
One of them is the ex-wife of football star Simpson.
When Roland heard the name Simpson, he immediately understood that this was the criminal trial case that attracted the most public attention in the history of America. It was made into a documentary "The Simpsons: Made in America" in later generations, and won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film.
Roland was not familiar with the whole incident. Apart from knowing that Simpson was finally found not guilty, he also knew that the lawyers Simpson hired at the time were called the Dream Team; Simpson burned at least $50,000 a day just to let He walks out unscathed, and the lawyer Alan Dershowitz who defends him is also famous because they won the final victory.
In addition to this, Roland actually knows a gossip that is not a gossip.
Kneeling basketball kids who are quicker than the surrender of France like the Mosaic League. The general manager of Mosaic belongs to the Mosaic team. The Mosaic team reached the finals in 1994, but when the police chased Simpson, a large number of patrol cars and helicopters were dispatched. When carrying out a blanket search, the media responsible for the live broadcast of the finals directly cut off the signal source and live broadcasted the scene of the Los Angeles police arresting Simpson in real time. end.
However, this kind of case mixed with racial discrimination can only remind Roland of such an incident. For him, the progress of the whole matter actually has little to do with him—it doesn’t matter if there is no suspicion, the money is big. He is not interested in victory, if he has this spare time, why not pay more attention to the passage of the 'Decriminalization of Polygamy' bill in Utah?
Caring about this is more realistic than caring about Simpson's wife murder, right?
Unfortunately, just when Roland held the attitude of having nothing to do with himself, reality gave him a slap in the face.
Because movies can never be separated from the public, and it will never be a matter of one person.
Within forty-eight hours after the incident, the whole incident fermented rapidly—at the age of 20, Simpson crossed the line and created the world’s best score in the 4*110-yard relay race, and set foot on the professional football field as the No. 1 pick. Later, he became the first player in the league to sprint for more than 2,000 yards with the ball in one season. He was selected as an All-Star six times. After Muhammad Ali, he is the most shining black superstar in the sports world. They didn't believe that he would kill people, so they held the signs of 'WELOVEO.J.' to support them everywhere, and racial discrimination became their slogan.
Fans think Simpson was wronged, they think their idol was framed.
And the murderers are those white people!
If they weren't the murderer, why did they arrest Simpson the same way they arrested terrorists?
Isn't it because they want to kill him?
It was precisely because the external situation was too chaotic that the premiere of "The Lion King" originally scheduled to be held in Disneyland on June 15 was pinched by Disney, although they really wanted to use the banner of Roland to participate in the dubbing There's a lot of hype, but with all the cable and print media reporting about Simpson's wife murder, let alone a premiere in this situation, thank God that the movie is showing well- no way, black people everywhere In the case of wanton parades, you go crazy to push an animated film dubbed by white people? Isn't this special code looking for trouble?
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Roland, who had already prepared for the platform, unexpectedly lost his job.
To be honest, Roland was in a daze when he received the apologetic call from the chairman of Disney himself.
There is no such thing in his memory!
Isn't "The Lion King" the highest-grossing animated film in the world before "Frozen"?
Why is it so difficult to even release it!
This Disney is poisonous!
After being beaten up twice by me, how could you be so unlucky?
If Disney knew Roland's secretly defaming thoughts, they would definitely vomit blood.
Obviously we have been getting beaten! How do you feel like you are the victim?
We also want to arrange films in large quantities for special codes, but the situation does not allow it!
It's a pity that both Disney and Roland can only bury their thoughts deep in their hearts.
Under Roland's questioning, Disney also announced the temporarily revised screening arrangement, "Now it can only be a regional screening."
"Our Disney brand marketing is not allowed to have obvious racial discrimination tendencies."
"So large-scale filming is impossible, because we can't guarantee that the advertisements we put out will be accepted by those parents who support Simpson. If they insist on why black people are not dubbed, then this movie..."
Although the other party didn't finish speaking, Roland understood the meaning.
Animated films are the lifeblood of Disney Studios, and Disneyland is one of their three pillar industries. When public opinion breaks out, they will not make any guiding actions, lest they be labeled as dishonest.
Roland had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and watch Disney change its promotional plan.
However, before he hung up the phone, he remembered one more thing, "Ehhh...wait a minute..."
"Is there anything else?"
"I want to ask, did we arrange the premiere in Disneyland in California before?"
"If we don't do it now, will Disneyland still be open?"
“Our tendency is to take a day off.”
"One day off? Isn't this a waste?" Roland immediately got excited when he heard it, "Well, on the 15th tomorrow, you will lend me the park for a day, and I will pay you the salary for this day. Based on the principle of utilization, you will be exempted from the venue fee."
"..."
Regarding Roland's proposal of waste utilization, the other end of the phone fell silent for an instant.
At first glance, it seems reasonable, but when you think about it carefully, this is not the case!
If the premiere cannot be held, the park will be closed for one day for some reason, and what will be lost is one day's tickets and food peripheral profits.
Of course, the wages of the staff who should be paid still have to be paid.
Now, if the park is lent to Roland, on the surface, the salaries of the staff will be paid by someone, and the loss will be the income from tickets and food, but if you calculate carefully, water and electricity are also money!
When the door is closed, the water and electricity consumption is small, but if you play...
I drive the motor of the Ferris wheel for you alone?
I open a fun fountain for you alone?
Will it cost more to burn water and electricity?
However, it is not easy for Disney to refuse!
A+list wants to play, which is actually a good thing.
This shows that their Disney brand is still doing very well!
After thinking about it this time, Roland can't be blamed, so after a few seconds of thinking, the other party agreed with Roland's idea, "This was an accident, and the money is unnecessary. If you want to play, you can come tonight."
Roland wants to go to Disney?
What a joke!
He just made Disney’s closure of the park more meaningful this time based on the principle of not wasting consumption.
Well, speaking humanly—in fact, Roland had promised the three Disney-loving sisters to take them to Disneyland on the day of the premiere of "The Lion King". Now that "The Lion King" is not premiering, let's play, Still have to play it!
He is a man of his word!
What's more, he doesn't have the slightest psychological pressure to rub Disney's wool!
...
Just when "The Lion King" was affected by public opinion and had to be screened from all the lines to regional screenings to reduce potential criticism, Roland still underestimated the incident, because the Simpson murder case affected far more movies than Such a one.
Of course, "Forrest Gump", a film that promotes truth, goodness and beauty, is not afraid of public opinion storms at all. On June 23, it will premiere in California, which is unshakable—you black people talk about racial discrimination, but if you mess with "Forrest Gump "Biography", then we can still say that you discriminate against the disabled! In 1990, America promulgated the "Disability Act", which prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities and guarantees equal rights for persons with disabilities.
Now, when you are fighting for your rights, you want to call on the public to ban a movie about the beautiful hearts of disabled people? Aren't you breaking the law? You can pursue your own rights, but others can't?
The point is, Simpson, like Gan in "Forrest Gump", has suffered from hypochondriac since he was a child, from getting rid of orthotics to running all the way to college, this is the best tribute, those guys who support Simpson to protest discrimination are not at all Will attack this movie, so "Forrest Gump" will be released smoothly.
Not only that, even though there was no hype due to the wrong wind direction, the box office in the first weekend still exceeded 30 million.
Compared with it, the most unlucky thing is "The Shawshank Redemption".
Why?
In the case of Simpson’s wife murder, the protagonist Simpson is a successful person at the peak of his life, but he is accused by the police of killing his ex-wife and his ex-wife’s male friend, and is suspected to be the only real murderer.
In "The Shawshank Redemption", the protagonist Andy the banker is also a successful person at the pinnacle of his life. He was also accused by the police of shooting his wife and her lover, and was finally sentenced to life, but he was wronged.
The coincidence of history makes Castle Rock Films, which invested in the production of "The Shawshank Redemption", scold directly!
Andy is a fictional character! But The Simpsons are real!
If "The Shawshank Redemption" sells...
Is this overt interference with justice?
They don't want to interfere with the judiciary, because the last event that sparked intense discussions and the major media edited the videotapes to gain huge ratings caused the Los Angeles riots in 1992!
The war from two years ago is back again?
Los Angeles will not let them go!
Sony, who was doing publicity for Castle Rock Pictures, was even more confused by this sudden incident!
I really want to make a movie, why is it so difficult?
So, Sony, which had sanctions and bans before, and the standard war later, didn't want to continue to make enemies and cause trouble.
"So you're not going to release the movie?"
When Roland received a call from Sony, who informed him that the audition list for the heroine had been announced, and asked him to arrange a time with the truck driver to participate in the audition torture, Roland, who had eaten such a big melon from Mike McDavoy, had a look on his face. Beep.
Although he has always felt that "Forrest Gump", which promotes the American dream, is more suitable for winning awards than "The Shawshank Redemption", but this is not the real reason why "The Shawshank Redemption" hit the box office and went to grandma's house, right?
He has always believed that "The Shawshank Redemption" box office hit too much, because if no one really liked it, it would be impossible to overturn the case in the future based on Oscar nominations alone, but looking at it now, it turned out to be a bad luck?
If it is really because of the impact of Simpson's wife murder case, the North American Theater Alliance may really suppress this movie. After all, if Los Angeles riots twice within five years, none of them can survive the fall. fist.
Although it is indeed unfair to do so, but—
No one can bear the blame for another riot!
"Do publicity normally, no more advertisements." Facing Roland's inquiry, Mike McDavoy sighed.
He handed the list of heroines in his hand to Roland, and said helplessly: "This movie will definitely lose money, at least 20 million."
Hearing these words, Roland, who took over the list, didn't browse the names at all.
Instead, he frowned and asked, "You don't want to lose money?"
"Who wants to lose money!" Mike McDavoy rolled his eyes and replied angrily.
"Then... how about selling it to me?" Roland asked tentatively.
"Huh? Do you want to buy it?" Mike McDavoy felt that Roland had taken the wrong medicine, "Why do you buy this movie that is bound to lose?"
Hearing what the other party said, Rolandon knew something was going on, "We are partners with Sony now. Isn't it a matter of course to help friends solve difficulties?"
Mike McDavoy curled his lips, showing an expression that only a ghost would believe you.
Roland also felt that what he said was a bit hypocritical, so he continued: "Well, actually, I want to buy it for the film library of our film company. After all, it is an adaptation of Stephen King's work. Collect it..."
Mike McDavoy really thinks that Roland's brain is broken.
What's wrong with collecting, must you collect a movie that will lose money?
However, Roland has said so, and he is not good at persuading him.
After thinking for a while, seeing that Roland had no intention of repenting, he nodded and said, "How much do you bid?"
"How much does Castle Rock want to sell?"
"Of course they want to sell it at a cost of 25 million yuan! They don't want to lose even a dollar!"
"That won't work, it's too expensive, at least a discount."
"How much cheaper do you want?"
"10 million cheaper? Sell it to me for 15 million? Global copyright?"
"Deal! I think they'll agree!"
Note: ①I didn’t want to write that part of the game, but I really couldn’t figure out what’s so interesting about the ACT made by the Big Three of Blizzard. Back then, the “Superman” was like shit. I wanted to copy “Street Fighter”, but the result They didn't even copy a poor man's version, and in the end even they themselves were so disgusted that they stopped touching this thing. ②The Simpson murder case had too much influence. The live broadcast of the Mosaic League Finals was directly cut off, and more than 20 helicopters flew in the sky. The live broadcast of his arrest was watched by more than 90 million people at the same time. From the 16th to the 29th, Yeltsin visited the United States after attending the UN General Assembly, and even asked Clinton, do you think O.J. did it? ③They were playing the race card from the beginning to the end. The witnesses of the defense were refuted because of their racial inclinations. Lawyers have been emphasizing in court that blacks are discriminated against. 90% of white people think Simpson is guilty, but more than 70% of black people think he is innocent, so "The Shawshank Redemption" with a similar plot was released casually, including overseas releases, all of which were made after 1995, and there are many others. It's what Oscar is doing. Of course, such a strong reaction is also related to MJ. Simpson is a good friend of MJ. The two bought a house next to each other. The physical examination at the end of December 1993 has already made them very dissatisfied. Forget it, it's a miracle that they didn't fight again. At this time, who cares whether the movie is losing money or not!
(end of this chapter)