Chapter 174 The New Gospel of CVD Users(1/2)
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Xiao Qiang had a long period of careful consideration before implementing the CVD reattack plan.
Hollywood's suppression of Universal Corporation is, on the surface, irresistible. He has no other way except to admit his failure.
If it were someone else, I would have raised my hand early to surrender.
But Xiao Qiang refused.
He is a reborn person. He has mastered the secret of reincarnation. He believes that he can reincarnate infinitely. So, since he has come to this era and is a Chinese person, and in a short time, he has earned enough money that he can't spend in his lifetime. The company he started has become a multinational group that is important even in the world. If he just spends his life easily, it would be too boring.
Think about it. If he continues in infinite cycle, succeeds like this quickly and then does nothing, then rebirth like this. What is the point?
Therefore, the goal Xiao Qiang set for himself is to constantly challenge, challenge, and challenge again!
Challenge all seemingly impossible tasks and make your own survival more positive and meaningful!
People live to do meaningful things.
Hollywood is indeed powerful, so powerful that the whole world is trembling for it.
Its films occupy 80% of the world's market. More than 200 countries around the world do not have their own film industry, and they rely entirely on importing American movies to enrich their cinemas.
Such a strong existence, even the fearless person, will feel scared.
But Xiao Qiang didn't.
He carefully analyzed the secrets of the success of Hollywood movies, and he also thought that he had mastered the tricks.
The biggest key to Hollywood movies is commerciality. It is a film created purely for business and is created to occupy the market. It combines various elements such as thrilling, thrilling, explosions, gunfights, love, and sex. This makes it the greatest welcome.
However, this does not mean that Hollywood does not have classic films with ideological connotations. On the contrary, there are many such films. Why is this?
However, after thinking for a long time, Xiao Qiang understood the reason.
Hollywood movies are able to achieve success mainly due to two points: First, English is strong in position. It is precisely because of the strong position of English in the world that people are willing to accept it, which is a fundamental existence higher than other reasons.
There are also many classic movies in European films, but the variety of languages limits its distribution scope.
The second point in Hollywood's success is to take commercial films as the leader. Relying on the common aesthetic hobbies of mankind, we use action movies, large-scale production science fiction movies, war movies and other films that stimulate audience emotions as the first step. We will open up the film market in other countries and regions.
In foreign countries, audiences have become familiar with American movies. After accepting American movies, they have gone from familiarity to love them. Other types of movies can easily occupy the local market and constantly squeeze out the films of their home countries from the market. In fact, there is also an idea, which is the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union and its impact on the world.
Because of the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, compared with the Soviet Union's rough suppression of policies, the United States' induction method seems very attractive.
There is no best in the world, only relatively good ones.
The so-called "not afraid of not knowing the goods" is afraid of comparing goods.
American local film companies cleverly use the fear of Soviet-style autocracy by the people of the world to add some slogans such as freedom and equality to the movies. They often ignore the plot and forcefully add similar elements to the general values to allow the audience to accept their views.
Xiao Qiang thought about it for a long time and decided to use his own way to counter the person.
He first released Jackie Chan's stunt movie clips.
Jackie Chan is an exceptional movie actor who is extremely dedicated and dares to take risks in person in order to pursue thrilling special effects.
His movies are not necessarily very good, but he conquered the audience with his courage and character.
This is a manifestation of human courage above all nations, races and political views. It is supplemented by classic Cheng's actions and humor. It is carefully created by Tianyu Company and Shanghai Translation Factory. It does not require too much effort. It has been recognized by the American people.
After Jackie Chan's movie was successful, Xiao Qiang launched Chow Yun-fat, the famous actor of the Eastern movie.
In contrast to Jackie Chan's slightly rough performance skills, Chow Yun-fat was able to get the liking of all audience groups including Japan, Hong Kong, Mainland, South Korea, and Southeast Asia lies in his temperament and superb acting skills of the ever-changing Emperor.
Chow Yun-fat can play any role, from a simple brother to a handsome and romantic rich man, from a gangster to a down-and-out killer. There is almost no role he can't play. What's more valuable is that he plays like whatever he plays, and his broad range of acting careers makes him a popular performing superstar that both men and women are welcomed by veterans.
Even so, Xiao Qiang also took a lot of consideration before launching the DVD.
He has never acted in the movies that Chow Yun-fat has ever acted, and has pushed them all to American audiences. Even if he is a famous actor or a great star, he may still star in some bad movies.
Xiao Qiang first excluded those videos with distinct Eastern and Western characteristics. Such videos can be used as selling points, but the time is not suitable.
He released the Emperor, mainly directed by Wu Zisen and several popular gun battle films.
At this time, Di Wu's name was in the prime of his life in Asia. But American TV viewers were not very familiar with him.
His proficient directorial skills and fierce gunfighting style also have nothing to do with any nationality or political views. The movies he directed, if it were a Western actor, would be an unforgettable classic blockbuster.
Xiao Qiang has always suppressed those classic Hong Kong art films, because American audiences may not accept such strong oriental cultural films, at least they may not accept them now. Those comedy films relying on oriental language art to win the victory are also because they are also trapped and cannot enter the United States for the time being. At this moment, what he cares most about is mainly to open up the market, and it is not yet time for a full-scale cultural invasion.
Through careful operation, he finally opened a gap in the American market.
The videotape rental store that flocked to the world proved that his technique was successful so far.
However, Xiao Qiang also clearly realized that relying solely on Hong Kong movies cannot guarantee success.
Hong Kong is known as the Hollywood of East China, which is an affirmation of it on this side. But it also confirms its regional restrictions from another side. Many Hong Kong movies have deep Eastern imprints, and these imprints are not loved by the Western world.
Just choosing action movies, this range is still too narrow to support a market.
Hollywood has not had any action yet. It is because they know that Hong Kong movies are not enough to pose a threat to them.
Xiao Qiang began to carry out the next move.
Guy is the owner of a video rental store in Brooklyn, New York. The rental store is on a small street, but there is a large shopping supermarket nearby. Those who go shopping can only walk three minutes to the store.
Therefore, his shadow belt rental business is pretty good.
Guy has had a great time recently. The Hong Kong movie discs he bought are very popular. They are often the previous customer just returned it and were immediately borrowed by the latter customer.
Although he bought ten sets of each movie, the supply was still in short supply.
Guy is very happy. Hong Kong movie discs are too cheap, and a set costs only seven to ten dollars. At such a price, he can only buy one to one and a half LD discs at most.
Of course, the effect of the cvd disc is not as good as LD. It’s just that the price is cheaper than the video tape, so there will be no dissatisfaction.
To be honest, Guy loves these Hong Kong movies very much.
His favorite place is Jackie Chan. Every time he sees his movies, he always feels inexplicably excited.
When he saw the thrilling actions performed by Jackie Chan in the movie, he couldn't help but find the treasured "Jackie Chan's Stunts World" again. He watched it from beginning to end. Strangely, he had watched it so many times. But every time he finished watching it, he always felt moist on his eyelashes. He knew that he had become Jackie Chan's loyal fan in hopelessly.
In addition to Jackie Chan, he also liked the actor named Chow Yun-fat. Several times, he regretted that this actor was not a Westerner. Otherwise, with his acting skills, he would be at his fingertips to become a famous Hollywood star in the world.
When he thought of Chow Yun-fat, Guy wanted to laugh.
I remember that he had just finished watching Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gambling", and Guy was shocked by the dazzling gambling skills in it, thinking that this was all true. He spent a long time practicing the shuffling technique, but every time, he spilled the cards everywhere.
The welcome company staff who came once a week and learned about the feedback of information only smiled and told him that it was a movie stunt, edited effect, and the real gambling skills were not like this. However, those fans who went back to watch the disc would often ask Guy how to shuffle and steal cards like in the video.
Guy told them seriously every time: Practice more.
"Haha!" Guy couldn't help laughing again when he thought of this.
"Guy, what are you laughing at?" A frequent customer came over with a videotape and a few video discs in his hand and asked him to register.
As the real functions of cvd are valued by people, and the richness of discs are made, users who specialize in purchasing cvd are also increasing.
Indeed, there was a rumor from Hollywood that they were setting new CD standards.
But everyone knows that as the main technical supporters of the region, Panasonic and Sony, are now attracting allies to the CD standard. The competition they have formed since the video tape period has led to the formulation of CD standard this time.
It will take several years to fight for them.
Besides, Japanese things have always been extremely expensive. Instead of spending several dollars to buy a product that I don’t know if it will be eliminated, it’s better to buy a CVD first, which is cheap and lightweight. Discs are easier to save than video recorders, and they are more convenient than video recorders when fast forwarding and reversing. Especially for segmented playback, it’s really convenient.
If it weren't for the video recording function, they could have taken the video recorder at home and threw it away.
The customer who rented the discs took the registered discs from Guy and asked casually: "Guy. Are there any new discs? These discs are very good, but after tossing and turning, I will finish watching them soon. When will you enter the new video?"
Guy said with a smile: "It's so fast, the distribution company said that new discs will come soon, and then there will be so many videos that will make you dazzling."
Guy sighed after sending the client away.
Like the customer just now, several customers have asked this.
Some customers are obsessed with watching videos. They can watch movies for more than ten hours in a row without feeling tired. Although customers like this are a minority after all, they are even slow-watching customers. They will also watch all the discs in the store in two or three months.
He had already reported this situation to the staff of the welcome company. But the other party always told him that the problem would be solved soon. That's right, who knows when they will have new discs to come. If it delays another month or two, and when the customers' interest is over, no one will come to see it again.
The glass door of the rental store made a sound. A man walked in and greeted him: "Hi, Guy. Is the business okay?"
This is a young man in his early twenties, wearing a jacket with a welcome sign on his chest, and it is him complaining about Dick, a staff member of the Universal Company.
Guy said angrily: "It's good business, but if you don't have new discs to replenish them, my business will not be able to continue. I said, you always tell me that there are new discs and new discs. But when will this disc arrive?"
Dick waited until Guy helped several hard customers complete the registration procedures. When he was free, he said with a smile: "I'm here this time, it's just for this matter.
"Really?" Guy was overjoyed and looked up at him.
The two of them talked, which attracted customers from the store to rent discs, and they gathered around them.
Dick took off the backpack behind him, took out a sixteen-sized, thick, beautifully printed roster from it, and opened it in front of them.
On the page of the Sixteenth page, there are three screenshots of the movie, and the following text descriptions of each movie introduction, as well as highlight recommendations. It is very detailed. As long as the owner of the rental store takes a look, you can know which discs are good and which discs are not rented well.
Guy flipped through page by page, and he found that the content of the videos launched by Universal Company was indeed much richer.
These discs include Hong Kong films, Hollywood blockbusters, cartoons and music discs.
But when he watched those Hollywood blockbusters, he looked at the title of a veteran rental store owner and knew that these were the films that welcomed the company to purchase copyright from MiGome, but this time it was also mixed with it.
He turned to the second half and felt disappointed.
To be continued...