Rebirth of the Tech Madman

In fact, James Cameron happened to pick up a leak, and the original director Rdrake was replaced by the project leader.

This is a horror movie named "Piranha 2: Breeding".

Most of the underwater scenes were filmed in Grand Cayman in the Caribbean Sea, another location was Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and the indoor scene was completed in a studio in Rome, Italy.

Since the investment was not much, it is not surprising that there will be constant conflicts during the operation of the project when it is consumed in this way.

For example, when James Cameron was in Rome, almost all crew members were Italians, and it was very inconvenient to communicate.

What makes James Cameron crazy is that the person in charge has reservations about his trust. The performance is that you can shoot each shot according to the requirements. As for the effect of going to the editing room, there is no need. .

James Cameron's grievance can be imagined, this is too bullying the newcomer.

After listening to James Cameron’s complaint, Tang Huan shook his head again and again, “I’m a little impatient to say what’s good about you. I control two Hollywood companies, even if the combined performance of Lianmei and MGM live in Hollywood. Endless, but you can still wait for a proper directing opportunity, so why bother to suffer this frustration."

"I really don't have enough patience, so I come back now to listen to the dispatch and work hard." James Cameron smiled awkwardly.

in fact. It is precisely because of the friendship established by chance and coincidence. As a result, he received special treatment to communicate directly with Tang Huan. At the same time, Tang Huan also appreciated him. James Cameron wanted to prove himself quickly so as to cross the minimum qualification threshold and enjoy the career opportunities that the big boss promised earlier.

Unfortunately, now that "Piranha 2: Breeding" is letting himself go, James Cameron has to succumb to reality and come back to earn his qualifications.

However, James Cameron is still not reconciled. I have been in contact with Tang Huan for so long. He knows that the other party likes to be active in the conversation, even if the topic is not popular, it is extremely tolerant.

Therefore, James Cameron first sighed with a bitter face, "I was irritated and sick, and even had a terrible dream. There was a metal torso of a robot that remained after the explosion, holding a kitchen knife. Climbed towards me."

Having said that, James Cameron immediately changed his face and took out a few pages of manuscripts and handed them over. Not without excitement, said: "However. This also triggered my inspiration and wrote a simple script. Do you see any value?"

Hearing this, Tang Huan's heart moved, and he took the manuscript and read it.

The content is not much, the main idea is that the story surrounding the two robots sent back from the future to the past is only in the initial stage, but the creativity is very clear.

Tang Huan nodded slightly, as expected, these are the first two films of the movie "Terminator".

James Cameron has been paying attention to Tang Huan's look, as long as the other party is interested, he can ask for funds to operate.

After all, relying on relationships to let friends eat and eat, and proactively launching projects on their own are not the same. People who can achieve success are often arrogant.

"How?" James Cameron asked tentatively.

"Although the setting is still rather vague, it's quite interesting." Tang Huan nodded and clearly affirmed himself, and then suddenly laughed, making the second monk James Cameron confused. .

He naturally didn't know that Tang Huan laughed because he suddenly thought of something more interesting from "Terminator".

In the original time and space, James Cameron’s idea of ​​"Terminator" was not very good, and even his agent was a disgusting attitude, so the two fell out and parted ways.

During the operation of the project, Galeannehurd-Gale Anne Hurd became interested, so James Cameron sold the copyright of "Terminator" to the other party for $1.

But there is one condition, that is, this film must be directed by James Cameron himself.

I have to say that James Cameron still has a deep obsession at the beginning of his career.

Gail Anne Hurd is a well-qualified Hollywood professional woman. She used to work as an assistant to Roger Coman, the president of New World Pictures, and mastered the commercial operation of the film by working in various positions.

By 1982, Gail Anne Hurd established a film production company of his own—West Pacific Production.

The second year of "Terminator" was released with great success, that is, in 1985, Gail Anne Hurd married James Cameron, became his second wife, and maintained four marriages.

Calculating in this way, James Cameron sold the copyright of "Terminator" for $1, which does not seem to be a loss.

Linda Hamilton, the heroine of "Terminator", later became James Cameron's fourth wife, but only two years later, it ended in divorce.

You know, at that time, with the film "Titanic" sweeping the world, James Cameron can be described as fame and fortune.

In other words, the little net worth earned by this great director has not been diluted because of the divorce.

Gail Anne Hurd and James Cameron got in touch with Orion Pictures through a friendship, and the other party agreed that as long as James Cameron can invest in other places. It will provide a distribution network.

later. —Handel Pictures—John Daly. I also expressed interest in the script of "Terminator" and participated in it.

With the financial support of these parties, James Cameron was finally able to create his first film in a real sense, but the initial budget was only 4 million US dollars, and then it was increased to more than 6 million US dollars.

Hollywood's unwelcome to this novice director is evident from this.

Now, James Cameron puts the idea of ​​"Terminator". When Xianbao arrived in front of him, Tang Huan would definitely not mind throwing out millions of dollars for support and investment.

But the problem is that you don’t need to be complacent to find financial support for the project. The cast of the movie may also change. Will the two marriages of James Cameron still happen? Will this great director's net worth be brought to another level?

It's rare to encounter a funny thing, Tang Huan can't even think about it without smiling, but this kind of fun is not easy to promote, so he can only enjoy it by himself.

"We are old friends. We might as well leave it to you." Tang Huan explained frankly, "I have always appreciated your ability. And this idea is unique, so I naturally want to invest."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan changed his head, "In addition, I have other considerations. This movie obviously needs some special effects, and I hope it can be done through a personal computer. George Lucas was for the filming of "Star Wars." , I made an Industrial Light and Magic, and I want to provide a more powerful and wider range of special effects platform."

Tang Huan stared at James Cameron with scorching eyes, "In other words, I need clearer and higher-end market requirements to point out the development direction of the industry, so as to inspire my engineers to develop more powerful products. And you, in the process of preparing to shoot this movie, you need to take a guest appearance on the accusation of the system requirements analyst."

"System requirements analyst? What exactly does it do?" James Cameron pointed his nose, his forehead began to sweat, "I don't understand the high-tech Silicon Valley at all."

"I will show you to the R&D center. Through the on-site observation, you will understand what's going on." Tang Huan smiled slightly and stood up.

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Now, what exactly does the highest hardware configuration of the second-generation Fangyuan computer look like? The answer can be found in the second-generation Fangyuan computer ultra.

In terms of cpu, naturally there are two 32-bits.

The external address bus is 24 bits, and the physical memory addressing space reaches 1mb, while the 16-bit intel8086 has 20 bits for the external address bus, and the physical memory addressing space is only 1mb.

It is with such support that the second-generation Fangyuan computer ultra's memory configuration is 4mb, which is already at the level of a minicomputer.

After Seagate introduced the st-506, a 525-inch hard drive with a capacity of 5mb last year, this year it has released an upgraded version-the 10mb st-412.

The second-generation Fangyuan computer ultra uses a dual hard disk configuration and two st-412s are installed.

The dedicated display core, audio core, Ethernet card and floppy disk drive are also necessary components of the second-generation Fangyuan computer ultra.

The performance of a computer can naturally not be distinguished simply by adding or subtracting parts.

The excellent performance of the second-generation Fangyuan computer ultra is due to two points:

First of all, the isa bus plays an important role as a bridge.

Secondly, the special version of the operating system fr-frtra, played the role of marshal in command of the three armies.

In addition, in order to better dissipate heat, the main box of the second-generation Fangyuan computer ultra is not simply increased in size, but meticulously designed, and even applied for related patents.

This is also a manifestation of the gap between other computers and Fangyuan computers, and they will not work hard at such an inconspicuous place.

The luxury of the second-generation Fangyuan computer ultra in the configuration has reached an outrageous level, and almost all engineers are slanderous about it.

Even those Motorola engineers who are responsible for communicating technical issues, after seeing this kind of enthusiast product, rely on it here not to return to their company, in order to continue to get the opportunity to experience the machine.

However, there are also many people who have doubts. Is there any other effect besides symbolic meaning for simply piling up the hardware configuration and improving the performance index?

In other words, what can customers do if they buy the ultra-high second-generation Fangyuan computer at an expensive price? It's a test of imagination.

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After James Cameron and Tang Huan came to an area of ​​the R&D center, they saw a scene of several personal computers connected together by cables, and a group of engineers pointing at the screens.

After carefully observing the image content on the monitor, James Cameron found that it seemed to be a toy car. What's even more amazing is that it can be flexibly driven on the screen in addition to being disassembled and assembled at will.

"This is a toy design plan for Hasbro." Tang Huan explained. "Three professional softwares are used, which provide vector graphics processing functions, bitmap processing functions, and computer-aided design functions. But in the end, this software has not yet been publicly released to the market."

"Only from the results I have seen so far, it can be concluded that these personal computers can indeed provide strong support for movie visual effects." James Cameron stared at the ultra second-generation Fangyuan computers with bright eyes.

"Now, what does the UU reading www.uukanshu.com system requirements analyst refer to?" Tang Huan smiled slightly, "Like the Hasbro toy being shown, the special effects of the movie are given priority to those that are commonly used. Put them forward one by one and let my engineers solve them. Through this kind of actual combat, objective market demands will be transformed into intimate and powerful functions."

Tang Huan patted James Cameron on the shoulder, "At that time, the establishment of a separate computer special effects company will be a matter of course. So, your burden is still quite heavy. You can't patronize your own movie projects. If you want to take care of it, at least you have to take the lead in setting up a special effects team."

James Cameron nodded suddenly, he suddenly felt a kind of pressure, Tang Huan's arrangement obviously exceeded his expectations.

But having said that, if you really have your own computer special effects team, then the quality that "Terminator" can achieve is very worth looking forward to.

Thinking of this, James Cameron's heartbeat accelerated a few minutes. (To be continued...)

Chapter 0299 ​​"Terminator" and computer special effects:

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