Before the richest man in the world made a fortune, his father was already the title partner of Quanmi TOP Law Firm and the president of the Washington State Bar Association. His wife, the richest man, came from a banking family and served as president of Union Bank of King County, Washington, chairman of the National Executive Committee of Union Bank, and director of Washington First Interstate Bank, Unigard Security Insurance Group, and Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company. A few weeks after she discussed her son's company with the chairman of IBM, IBM boldly entrusted the operating system of its personal computer products to Microsoft, which is still a small software company. It seems that even that system was bought by the richest man from someone else to improve it back then. ”

After staying in that room for less than five minutes, Song Ya immediately went to Sloan after coming out and retold the rough process, "It's a little confusing to meet so many big people, right?" Sloan smiled: "Don't blame yourself, it's normal not to recognize the richest man's father, he is a lawyer, not a public figure, and he is very low-key." ”

"Confused? Not really, I was very calm and there was no shame in my performance. Only...... Feeling a little weird, a room full of elderly people, in addition to photographers, there are also some attachés and nurses? It must have been the paramedics, walking around, and I didn't have a chance to talk to them much. ”

Song Ya shrugged and said, "It seems that they will take a group photo when they have the opportunity to get together, after all, at that age...... Mrs. Astor is in her nineties, and David Rockefeller is in his eighties. ”

"Wait! Group photo!? Did you shoot with them too? Sloane's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"It's like it's filmed, I'm not sure, I'm all focused on talking to them." Song Ya replied.

"What did you all talk about? And with whom? Can you recall it? Sloan asked, "It's better to remember how they looked and how they moved." ”

"What just happened Sloane, I don't have that bad memory. Uh......"

Song Ya closed his eyes and recalled, "Mr. David Rockefeller did not speak, after shaking hands, he sat in the chair in a daze, after I shook hands with the old Gates, Dr. Kissin seemed to be most interested in me, he first asked me if I could speak Chinese, and I replied, 'Can I speak and write?' He asked, 'Yes,' and I replied, 'Cantonese?' He asked, 'Mandarin', and I replied. That's when Mrs. Astor looked back at me...... Smiling, but not speaking, very temperamental old lady, I nodded to her. ”

"I heard that she can also speak Chinese, has spent four years in China, likes Chinese culture very much, and funded the construction of the Chinese courtyard on the second floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Astor Garden." Sloan added: "The people in that room seemed to be friendly to China, and Mrs. Astor had maintained friendships with David Rockefeller and Dr. Kissin for decades. ”

"Maybe."

Song Ya thinks that at least Murdoch, who owns FoxNews, can't say it, he knows that there are friendly and unfriendly members of the Rockefeller family, and that kind of big family is betting separately, Dr. Kissing was based on the interests of the United States and needed to be friendly to China, and later after he stepped aside politically, he was not popular in the United States, and it was beneficial for him to maintain his old friendship with friendly personalities.

"So they're taking a fancy to your Chinese-China relationship?" Sloan asked: "It's very hot to invest in China right now. ”

"How is it possible, Dr. Kissin is here, how can I see that little bit of my relationship in front of him?"

Song Ya shook his head, "I guess it was Murdoch who proposed to ask me to come over and talk when they were taking a group photo, and then maybe Madoff, Dr. Kissin and others didn't refuse......"

"And then? What was the conversation. ”

"I didn't talk about anything, it was all Murdoch who asked me when I was in New York, if there were any lots I liked at the auction, if I had just seen Bill McKennie outside, and so on...... I answered them all truthfully. Song Ya said, "Buffett asked me again if I met Ovitz, and I said yes, just now he took me outside to find you." ”

"Later?"

"Then an old man named Rothschild came in, and Murdoch suggested that I could go out, and I ...... I'm coming out to look for you. ”

"Then you still say that you are not confused!?"

"Yes...... Have it? Song Ya scratched his head.

Sloan rolled his eyes just as Bill McKennick walked in the distance and the two stopped talking.

"APLUS, HAVE YOU SEEN MR. MURDOCH?" Bill McKennick asked.

"Yes, I've seen it."

"So let's see a sample of the Titonic tomorrow afternoon?" Bill McKennick invited, "Mr. Murdoch will be there too." ”

"Samples? Is it already filmed? It's not ......"

Why are you looking for me to attract investment after the filming is over? Song Ya and Sloan glanced at each other, a little puzzled.

"No, just some ...... I don't know the specific content of the sample film, but it took a lot to convince Cameron to direct, and I don't have anything to do with him now. ”

Bill McKennick was anxious, "Anyway, tomorrow afternoon, it's decided?" He gave the exact time and address.

"Okay."

At this time, the auction began, and Song Ya excused himself to go to the venue and say goodbye to Sloane, "I feel as if they know that you have signed with Littleman, so there is a series of actions just now, and Murdoch is afraid that he will let you go." Sloan waited for him to walk away and whispered.

"It's very likely that in the situation of the Litman family today, it's normal to have an internal ghost."

Song Ya felt that this speculation was very reasonable, "Maybe Murdoch has been in control of the progress of the negotiations between my two sides from beginning to end." ”

But he didn't know that there was no competition with Littleman at all...... After spending 85 million just now, you still haven't shown any attitude of refusing to invest 60 million in the Titanic, and you are definitely qualified to enter that room temporarily in the past two days. Sloan laughed.

"Hehe, just these two days?"

Sloan doesn't often shoot his own sycophants, Song Ya is very useful, today's auction is full of VIPs, naturally play a lot, the bidding amount is often millions, now the money can save a little money, spend 50,000 dollars to buy Zhang Dali's watercolor painting to get a participation prize and then give it to Sloane, and then find a place to earn his twenty dollars of hard-earned money.

The next day, he and Sloan appeared in one of Fox Network's screening rooms in New York.

"Come and sit, APLUS."

Murdoch was already there, half-lying on the screening room couch with Bill McKennick sitting next to him.

"Sorry, I'm late." Song Ya sat down, and Ms. Sloan volunteered to sit next to some people in the back row, perhaps Fox Film executives or something.

"No, you're punctual."

The lights in the screening room were already dim, and Song Ya could only make out the reflection of Murdoch's standard Jewish face on the side of his face and the glasses on the bridge of his nose, "Let's start." Murdoch stared at the silver curtain in front of him from beginning to end, his index and middle fingers pressed against the temples of his glasses, looking preoccupied.

Yesterday, in that room, whether it was Warren Buffett, Rockefeller, Madoff, or Rothschild, they all ran a financing business, and I don't know why this old man didn't borrow money from them? Song Ya muttered in her heart, of course she wouldn't be stupid enough to ask in person.

He knows that Murdoch has not been in a good situation recently, and John Malone, the media tycoon's TCI company, which Ovitz mentioned before, just announced that he owns more than 5% of News Corp.'s shares, and he doesn't know if he wants to take advantage of his illness to kill him......

John Malone has a stiff relationship with Vice President Al Gore, and Gore seems to be sniping at a merger between TCI and Microsoft? The specific inside story is also unclear, and I haven't paid attention to it.

Three people who don't know whether it was the Fox senior or the Titanic project began to take the copy from the code suitcase, the box was in the hands of one of them, and the other two entered the password, and it took a long time to take the movie copy out of the box, Song Ya took advantage of this boring waiting time to think wildly.

Director Cameron doesn't seem to be here? He looked behind him and didn't find the truck driver, the tyrant on the set.

"Let's get started, hurry up."

Bill McKennick urges the person in charge of the screening.

With a click of the switch, the screening room went completely dark, and the Titanic dailies began to relax, at first there were a few handwritten fonts, movie titles, editing times, etc., and then the picture lit up, and it was a grand ball scene that had been popular since the golden age of Hollywood.

There is no post, no soundtrack, the colors are wrong, and the sound effects are terrible, Song Ya has experience in editing and knows that this is normal, and from a professional point of view, there is no problem with Cameron's prom scene scheduling.

The camera zooms in to the close-up of Xiao Lizi and the heroine Kate Winslet dancing, and the heroine seems to be a little chubby? Song Ya pursed her lips.

Suddenly, the playback speed seemed to be wrong, and the sound of 'chirp chirp ......' in the screening room sounded like a cassette tape, and Little Plum and Kate Winslet danced together in a fast-forward style on the screen like an early silent film effect, which was quite comical.

Murdoch let out a sigh or phlegm sound in his throat, and Bill McKennick looked back uneasily.

"It's not my problem." The person in charge of the reflection whispered.

That's the problem with the dailies, and it's not just that, the picture is suddenly cut to a vista of a big ship, which is very realistic, no, almost real.

But the on-site staff seemed to have been filmed in the footage and did not have time to cut it.

"This is the Titanic?" Songya asked Bill McKennick.

"Yes, this is the one back then, a full-scale model, live-action shooting." Murdoch was in a better mood and answered in person.

But immediately it entered the 'fast forward' mode again, and after a series of chaotic shots, the big ship was only half cut off, there was a band still playing on the boat, and some of the men who could tell from the clothes were that they were high society stayed on the boat with their eyes firmly on it, listening to the music and dying generously.

"Astor IV was one of them, the father of Mrs. Astor's husband, one of the richest men in the world at the time, and the founder of Macy's." Murdoch introduced.

"Oh, I see." Song Ya nodded and was taught.

"Hmm."

I don't know if this film was cut by Cameron, fast forward for a while, and cut the picture indiscriminately for a while, the ship was about to sink just now, and the next shot was sailing in the sea in a good way, and the viewing experience was very painful.

"Rose! Rose! ”

When Xiao Lizi shouted the heroine's name in the sea, he began to fast-forward the ghost beast again, Song Ya tried to distinguish, as if the edge of the swimming pool could be seen in the corner of the picture, Xiao Lizi gave the heroine the chance to survive, a wooden plank drifting in the sea, and then ...... The people are gone, the picture comes to an abrupt end, and the screening room is pitch black.

Silence and embarrassment pervaded, and Song Ya only heard the sound of the projector turning.

"I didn't ...... Gone? Bill McKennick asked.

"It seems to be gone." The person who brought the copy replied: "I don't know the content either, Director Cameron is very strict about confidentiality." ”

"Alas! Turn on the lights. ”

Murdoch was really sighing this time, and when the light was turned on, he looked at his watch, "It's only been ten minutes, and I was supposed to be here for two hours." ”

No one in the review room dared to pick up the stubble, Song Yaxin said that this Cameron was really ruthless, and the big boss only showed it for ten minutes when he increased his investors, and he didn't even bother to spend a little effort to retouch the sample.

"Uh......"

Bill McKennick made a frightened suggestion, "Why don't you watch One Fine Day?" for Christmas, a romance starring George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer. ”

Murdoch waved his hand impatiently, and Bill McKennie immediately jumped up like a spring and ran out of the door to make a copy.