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Continued to spend two hours watching the sample film of "American Pie" and discussing follow-up matters, followed by the production meeting of "Ghost Story".

During this time, Justin Lin had already completed the script after receiving the brief idea written by Simon.

In fact, this could have been handed over to a more professional screenwriter. Lin Yibin is not good at it, whether it is in memory or after contact. However, for that reason, Simon needs a real youthful texture and handed it over to a professional screenwriter. It may be easier to fall into a fixed routine than a professional director's operation.

In order to avoid this situation, Simon also specifically told Justin Lin not to watch any horror movies during the script writing process, especially Daenerys Entertainment's The Conjuring Movie Universe series.

Just write according to the thinking of an ordinary person.

In the past more than a month, the script has been completed, and the selection of actors has also ended.

For actors, Simon requires as many newcomers as possible and acting skills, so Linda Vargas, Simon's queen casting director, conducted a small-scale selection in some performing arts schools in Los Angeles and New York, and the final candidates were all performing arts schools student.

Both by coincidence and on purpose, Simon chose two 'acquaintances'.

All female characters.

One named Amy? Adams, one named Jessica? Chastain.

Amy? Adams is 22 years old this year. She was born at the bottom and never went to college. She just studied acting part-time at a private acting school in Los Angeles.

Simon's requirement for the heroine is to have a beauty of about 70 points and a gloomy temperament suitable for the atmosphere of horror movies, so this Hollywood actress who has always made Simon feel that she is very suitable to play a female psycho killer is very lucky to be accepted The conscientious Linda chose.

It was lucky and unexpected.

Because she knows Simon's preference for choosing actresses, Linda will always considerately prepare some shortlists for her boss, otherwise it will be difficult to say whether this actress can be shortlisted, and Simon is not interested in deliberately looking for any big names in memory. star.

As for Jessica Chastain, the same is true.

The actress is now a student at the famous American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She is a lot higher than Amy's pheasant class, and her performance in the audition is better than Amy's.

However, Simon only gave Sister Model a role of a friend who came to visit after learning that the apartment of the host and hostess was haunted.

The main reason is that Model Worker is much worse than the 70 points required by Simon. According to Simon's personal aesthetic standards, the maximum is 60 points.As an ultra-low-budget horror film, the actress must not be too beautiful, otherwise it will easily distract the audience from the show, but it must also be durable, and Amy Adams' score of 70 is just right.

Coincidentally, the heroine in the original "Ghost Story", Simon can't remember the name, but the appearance is obviously somewhat similar to Amy Adams.

Although there is one heroine and one supporting role this time, since they met, the two actresses will also become the targets of Simon's deliberate attention and training after the performance of "Ghost Story".

As for the leading actor, Simon doesn't have much interest, as long as his acting skills are sufficient, he chose a young man who has no impression at all but has excellent acting skills.

The production meeting in the afternoon was the first gathering of the small team after the completion of the construction. Except for Lin Yibin, because of the confidentiality work in advance, it was the first time for the others to know that such a small film would get Simon Westeros. After paying close attention to it personally, and then knowing that it was an idea proposed by Simon, I was even more excited. Even if the two actresses are not as bold as some other women who can get in touch with Simon, it is inevitable that they will be a little proactive.

However, apart from cultivating the two girls into pocket actresses, Simon has no other special interests.

The main reason is that as the bellies of the women around him are getting bigger and bigger, Simon's interest in women has also inexplicably decreased during this period of time.

Maybe it's some kind of prenatal anxiety about being a father, too.

The kind where six women get pregnant together.

Tremendous stress.

Unlike "American Pie", the meeting time with the crew of "Ghost Story" was very short, only half an hour. It mainly explained the precautions during the filming process. It must be realistic and life-like. Go watch a reality show like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Of course, Lin Yibin and others can only figure out how to do it. Simon will find time to look at the samples a few times during the shooting process.

After the meeting ended, Simon rushed to the next production meeting of "Clash of Heaven and Earth" without stopping.

And so on until evening.

After seeing off Ben Stiller, who was in charge of the screenwriter of "The Hangover", Girl A walked in, and handed over a note with a slightly weird expression: "This is just sent by Madam."

Simon took it and looked at it.

The first is a string of addresses. I probably remembered that it was a mansion of my family in Beverly Hills.

Then there is a sentence.

Very white and very white Natasha is waiting for the darling to enjoy.

Simon was stunned for a moment after reading it, and then remembered that the Ukrainian representative he met at the SpaceX headquarters in the morning did not expect Janet to get started so quickly, um, no, she helped her man get started.

What a wife.

Slightly raised the corners of her lips and thought about it, then she probably understood that Janet might have noticed his anxiety during this time, so she took the initiative to find a woman to let him relax.

Girl A saw her boss on the ground, turned around and returned to her desk, she just threw the sticky note on the corner of the table, paused, and couldn't help coming over: "Boss, do you want to go over and make arrangements in advance?"

Simon shook his head: "No, go home later."

"Ok?"

"I'm really not interested recently."

Girl A, of course, had no objection, nodded and left the office.

Simon worked until six o'clock, when he returned to Cap Doume.

Janet had returned early and was reading a tome with Seattle by the glass curtain wall. She was quite surprised to see Simon.

Simon hugged the woman in his arms and motioned to the baby-faced waitress beside him, Zoe, to take away the baby girl who would feel inferior when he saw it now. Then he and Janet lay on the sofa together, watching the last touch of the sea through the curtain wall sunset.

Janet rubbed against each other to find a comfortable position, enjoyed the man's embrace, and asked with a smile: "Why don't you go to Beverly Hills, it's really white, I still take her Did you do a full set of maintenance?"

Simon joked: "I am such a responsible man, of course I have to go home after get off work, how could I go out and fool around."

Janet wrinkled her nose with a small expression of "You liar", opened her mouth and bit Simon's body lightly, and then put her head on Simon's shoulder, but after a moment of silence, the woman jumped out of Simon's arms again, He ran away quickly with bare feet, leaving Simon with a confused face.

However, in less than a minute, Janet returned again, sat across from Simon's lap, held the man's head and leaned over, while whispering evilly and with a little excitement: "This time it's the mouth, just treat it as a mouth." It's a reward for getting home on time from get off work, but don't think too much about it."

After saying this without end, Janet lowered her head and kissed the man's lips.

Chapter 1105 Blackberry

San Francisco, Mountain View.

At a corner bench in a lab at Tinkobel's headquarters, Simon, A-girls, C-girls, and Tinkobel's other co-founder, Neil Brantly, are gathering here.

This is the end of a day's work. Most of the employees have already left work. Simon and others continue to stay and come to try out some new products in Tinkber's laboratory.

Leaning on the only leather chair next to the workbench, Simon is holding a 16cm-thick tablet prototype in his hand and is playing with it. This is not the combination of e-book iBook concept and music player that will be released this fall. The iPad 10 with iPlayer and other functions, to be precise, should be the follow-up series of iPad that may be launched in two or three years. The main difference is that this prototype is equipped with a camera that can take pictures.

Girl A and Neil Brantly stood on both sides of Simon, while Girl C was sitting on the workbench facing Simon in a disfigured way, her slender calf occasionally touching Simon' Interact' some.

Tilting his head, he pretended to be cute and took a photo with his boss. Claire said: "Boss, that "Ghost Story", really don't need us to provide some experimental equipment that is still under development, like this iPad. ?”

The experimental products being developed by large and powerful electronics giants are often several generations ahead of the products on the market.Each generation of new products launched may be far from the ultimate technology of a company, so consumers often complain that various manufacturers squeeze toothpaste and the like, which is definitely not wronged.

For "Ghost Story", the equipment used by Justin Lin is the second-generation Tinkobel digital camera iRec 20, which will be launched at the spring conference this month. Some modifications are mainly for battery life and radio, etc., not cheating, just for better shooting.In the future, if consumers have needs, they can also carry out related modifications by themselves.

However, future iRec 30 and even iRec 40 prototypes are available in the Tinkobel lab if desired.

Simon operated the touch-screen prototype in his hand and used the built-in software to modify and debug the photo of C girl just taken, shaking his head and said: "No, what you want is the real effect. You don't want to wait for the movie to come out. Users use iRec 20 to imitate the shooting results and find that the effect is too different." Is it big?"

"I'm just worried that the movie that the boss personally conceived will not be made well, that's a pity."

"Will not."

Simon said, after trying out the tablet computer in his hand, he put the machine aside, touched the ground and brought the leather chair a little closer to the workbench. At this time, a prototype iMac 10 that was also about to be released was running on the stage, and he patted it to cover it. Mockup's C-girl thighs: "Let's make it."

Claire propped herself up and moved a little to the side, then jumped off the workbench and sat on her boss's lap without hesitation? They looked at the iMac computer in front of them together.

Girl C has a slender figure, and it doesn't affect anything when she is hugged in her arms. The fragrant and soft feeling is very refreshing.Simon casually put his arms around the girl's waist, operated the mouse with one hand, and clicked on the screen similar to the previous iMac interface.

The graphical interface operating system developed by the Linux kernel installed on this PC was also directly named iOS 10 by Simon Tuo.

The mouse pointer moved across the row of icons such as 'File', 'Settings', 'Programs', 'Recycling', 'Mall', 'Games', etc. at the bottom of the desktop, and Simon first selected 'Mall'.

Still the same sentence, developing an operating system? It's not as difficult as imagined.

The difficulty is ecology.

The biggest difference between the new iMac and the original version is that it adopts the software store concept of the later smart phone and puts the software store directly on the desktop. Users only need to connect to the Internet to download or purchase software. The software that enters the iOS software store will be strictly reviewed by Tinkobel.

On the other hand, Tinkber also conducted a very extensive investigation in private.

Software ecology is important? But for ordinary users, the software that is often used is actually limited to a few or even a dozen models. Therefore, building an ecology? It is also not as difficult as imagined.

As for the hardware? The most popular peripheral hardware products for personal computers? Are they all their own products? This is not a problem.

Of course, this is only for Tinkber.

In order for the technology companies of the Westeros system to have their own absolute control platform in the field of desktop operating systems, Simon personally coordinated? Including the major technology giants directly under the Westeros system, but before the release of this new film Hundreds of technology companies have quietly completed the development of the iOS version of their own software.

It's actually like Google used to be.

Why is Android so successful?

On the one hand, Apple was too closed and took the initiative to give up most of the market. On the other hand, it was because Google, which was growing rapidly at that time, already had the strength to mobilize enough resources to promote the development of an operating system.Otherwise, the market vacated by Apple may eventually be swallowed up by Microsoft's mobile operating system.

The current Tinkber, backed by the Westeros system, can use more than ten times the resources of Google, even if Microsoft already has absolute control in the field of desktop operating systems, if Simon makes up his mind, whoever wins will win Hard to say.

Simon just wasn't going to do it.

This is not just the reason why I am still a major shareholder of Microsoft. If necessary, it doesn't matter if I give up Microsoft's tens of billions of dollars in stock.

The main reason is that Simon hopes to have a dominant ecological environment in the field of desktop operating systems, so as to avoid internal friction between various standards and provide a stable development environment for the Internet industry at a higher level.

Of course, the launch of iMac and iOS, on the one hand, is to check and balance Microsoft. On the other hand, a more important reason is to prepare for the future mobile Internet era. In the PC era, Simon can let Microsoft take the lead, but in the future mobile era, the initiative will definitely be taken back.