Chapter six hundred and seventeen what happened
The bright sunlight illuminated every inch of the space in the hotel square. Michael Eisner, who walked out of the hotel, felt that the world suddenly became much darker. Standing in front of his car, his eyebrows were almost twisted into a bump. Even if he was the assistant sliding the door, he didn't notice it.
The assistant waited for a while and couldn't help but remind, "Chairman..."
Michael Eisner came to his senses, bent down and got into the car, and said to the assistant who came to the co-pilot, "Call Cook Dick and ask him to see me."
After saying that, he slowly closed his eyes, the calmness on his face gradually disappeared, and his expression became particularly solemn.
The reason why he did this was related to the resolution of the just-concluded Walt Disney shareholders' meeting.
At this shareholders' meeting, under the instigation of Roy Disney, Disney shareholders demanded that someone be responsible for the failure of the Disneyland project and the investigation of the Customs Border Protection Agency, and pointed the finger at the side where he was.
The first thing those shareholders value is profits. The failure of the Disneyland project and the investigation by the Customs Border Protection Bureau had an extremely adverse impact on the entire Walt Disney Group. The most obvious one is reflected in the stock market. The company's stock price has continued to decline, which has seriously stimulated the nerves of shareholders.
Michael Eisner is the chairman and CEO of the group company after all. No matter from any perspective, he needs to explain to the shareholders.
And an explanation must be made, otherwise most shareholders with voting rights will definitely rush him to step down.
In order to calm the anger of shareholders and to stabilize his position, Michael Eisner had to choose to sacrifice his right and left hands. Cook Dick, the president of Warner Disney, who had only been in office for a year, became a victim of the shareholders' meeting.
Robert Eiger successfully found the position of president of the group.
This result is something Michael Eisner doesn't want to see anyway, but he is forced to choose. Someone must be responsible for those two serious incidents. And the weight must be heavy enough. Cook Dick is almost the only candidate.
Could it be that he would resign himself from his position as chairman and CEO?
And even if Robert Eiger becomes the president of Walt Disney, he will not get much substantial power. He has been operating at Disney for so many years. The mutually restricted triangular power structure of the president, CEO and chairman has long been unbalanced, and most of the power is concentrated in his hands.
However, Michael Eisner also saw the crisis. Behind Robert Eiger is obviously not just the Disney family represented by Roy Disney.
If you want to stabilize your position, you have to cut off the hand behind Robert Eiger. He knows where the hand comes from.
The car drove directly into a club. In the club's private reception room, Michael Eisner met Cook Dick.
The former Walt Disney CEO had a gloomy face, but tried his best to maintain peace, greeted Michael Eisner, and sat down again.
Michael Eisner sat on the chair next to him and said slowly, "You can rest for a while, and things won't be done like that."
"I want to spend time with my family, too." Cook Dick said something a bit difficult. How could he easily accept the imbalance of falling from a high position? But he understood Michael Eisner's behavior and just said, "Laura has been planning a global trip. This time it can be achieved."
"Don't be discouraged." Michael Eisner said confidently, "Just cut off the hand behind Robert Eiger. There will be no possibility of any change in Disney's situation."
"He..." Cook Dick knew who he was talking about and sighed, "He is not easy to deal with. With the precedent of "Iron Man", we cannot use the same method."
"That means must not be used for the second time." A little bit of sinister appeared in Michael Eisner's eyes. "Duke Rosenberg's mind is clear and his will is firm. But it doesn't mean that everyone around him is like this."
Cook Dick couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "Michael, you mean..."
"Some people are with him for so many years, but they still have no place or altitude, so I guess they have some ideas."
Suddenly he stood up and walked back and forth in the room, Michael Eisner said sternly, "The people around him who could betray Caa and Michael Orwitz and Duke Rosenberg for the sake of the high position of the media company, may not have made the same choice."
He walked over and patted Cook Dick's shoulder gently, "You can rest for a while first, you need to help you."
As usual, Cook Dick said without hesitation, "I get it."
Michael Eisner left the club first. Cook Dick looked at his back and stood at the door for a while. The unwillingness in his eyes gradually appeared. His backer regarded him as a victim of his stable position without hesitation!
No one likes this feeling of being betrayed, and Cook Dick is no exception. He just wants to gain power in Hollywood again. Who else can he rely on except Michael Eisner?
Walking out of the club, Cook Dick got into the car. Just as he was about to start, his phone suddenly rang.
After looking at the number, he pressed the answer button, and there was a familiar voice inside.
"Sorry, Cook, I just got the news from Disney's shareholders' meeting, it's too unfair to you..."
Is it fair? It is indeed unfair. Michael Eisner and Duke Rosenberg and Time Warner failed to compete, but they had to bear the consequences themselves.
"Cook, do you have any plans for the next step? I don't think you have to rely entirely on Michael Eisner. I have an old friend here who wants to talk to you..."
The other party said a lot. If it was the past, Cook Dickri would not pay attention to those things that were not good for Disney and Michael Eisner, but now it is different.
The last call said, "If you are interested, come to Burbank to meet him."
After hanging up the phone, Cook Dick hesitated for a few minutes, then started the car and drove onto the road to Burbank.
At the Burbank Warner Studios, after more than a month of busy work, Duke's fine cutting work was basically completed, and some special effects were added to it. After leaving the editing room, he went to the sound effect room next to him. Hans Jimo had just sent a few sample samples of the main soundtrack.
The soundtrack sent is mainly divided into three aspects, involving the Joker, Harvey Dante and Bruce Wayne.
After Duke asked Charles Rowan and Anna Prinz to find him, he asked the sound effectsist to play the first version of the soundtrack.
The first thing to play is the main soundtrack of the Joker, just like Hans Jimo said to Duke, who used a lot of suppressed electronic music to highlight the evil of the Joker.
Although he is an amateur in music, Duke has produced so many movies and still has a certain understanding of the soundtrack.
The sense of depression is a distinctive feature of this clown-themed soundtrack. It uses a seemingly inconsistent monotonal tone change, combined with the special sound effects produced by electronic synthesizers, which directly gives people a strong auditory stimulation.
Hans Jimo obviously used cold tones to create a dark atmosphere of the soundtrack, many inconsistent chords and almost crazy weird melodies, coupled with extremely rich electronic elements, and even analog stopwatch countdowns and explosion-like sound effects incorporated into various tones. Not only does this electronic sound effect describing the clown not seem thin in hearing, but also makes the feelings more full and real.
Next is the background soundtrack of Batman. This soundtrack inherits the tone of "The Moment of War", but is more rich and gorgeous. The violin keeps moving, playing a sixteenth note jump bow, which is powerful and powerful, and combined with the urgency created by the percussion instrument, showing an unstable and uneasy mood.
Coupled with the long notes stretched out on the strings, it is a passionate release, and it is full of dynamic with the accelerated Batman theme with a strong rhythm.
This soundtrack combines the effects of electronic music and orchestral music, with a commercial flavor and a full sense of modernity.
Duke and Hans Jimo have worked together many times and are aware that this approach often appears in many of Hans Jimo's works. The soundtrack uses a large number of electronic sounds to quickly transfer between orchestral music. This transfer is quite rapid and difficult to detect, allowing the music to be completed smoothly.
The final play is Harvey Dante's background music. This soundtrack uses a large number of beautiful piano solos and a large number of Batman theme variations, which are obviously divided into two parts, just like Harvey Dante's life.
However, even in the first half full of light, the musical piano melody uses a string of cool notes, which is quite divergent, and seems to be telling a poignant story.
The room replied quietly, Duke turned to look at Charles Rowan and Anna Prinz and asked, "How do you feel?"
"I think it's good." Anna Prinz nodded, "the usual high standard."
Seeing that Charles Rowan also showed an expression of agreement, Duke said to an assistant, "I informed Hans Jimo and said that I was very satisfied with the soundtrack and let him finish it as soon as possible, and the latest cannot be exceeded by early April."
The assistant was busy calling, and Duke and the other two left the sound effect studio and were about to go to the Industrial Light and Magic special effects studio to take a look. Suddenly, the sound of high heels falling to the ground suddenly sounded on the other side of the stairs, and Tina Fei's figure then turned out of the stairwell.
She walked very fast, as if the hatred on her feet had no effect, and her expression was a little strange, as if she had encountered something incredible.
Before she could get close to Duke and the other two, Tina Fei's cell phone rang again. She looked down and answered the phone first.
Duke could hear Tina Fei's words, "Confirm? Nothing is wrong? I know, I'll notify Duke now."
Chapter completed!